{"id":90042,"date":"2019-04-28T09:22:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T16:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/the-promise-and-perils-of-synthetic-biology"},"modified":"2019-04-28T09:22:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T16:22:37","slug":"the-promise-and-perils-of-synthetic-biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/the-promise-and-perils-of-synthetic-biology","title":{"rendered":"The promise and perils of synthetic biology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-promise-and-perils-of-synthetic-biology2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To understand them well, look to the past.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-promise-and-perils-of-synthetic-biology2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" srcSet=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/200-width\/images\/print-edition\/20190406_LDD001_0.jpg 200w, \/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/300-width\/images\/print-edition\/20190406_LDD001_0.jpg 300w, \/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/400-width\/images\/print-edition\/20190406_LDD001_0.jpg 400w, \/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/640-width\/images\/print-edition\/20190406_LDD001_0.jpg 640w, \/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/800-width\/images\/print-edition\/20190406_LDD001_0.jpg 800w, \/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/1000-width\/images\/print-edition\/20190406_LDD001_0.jpg 1000w, \/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/1200-width\/images\/print-edition\/20190406_LDD001_0.jpg 1200w, \/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/1280-width\/images\/print-edition\/20190406_LDD001_0.jpg 1280w,\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/1600-width\/images\/print-edition\/20190406_LDD001_0.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 600px)  640px, calc(100vw - 20px)\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/leaders\/2019\/04\/04\/the-promise-and-perils-of-synthetic-biology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To understand them well, look to the past. Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}