{"id":90908,"date":"2019-05-17T15:23:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T22:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/scientists-created-this-organisms-dna-from-scratch"},"modified":"2019-05-17T15:23:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T22:23:09","slug":"scientists-created-this-organisms-dna-from-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/scientists-created-this-organisms-dna-from-scratch","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Created This Organism\u2019s DNA From Scratch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-created-this-organisms-dna-from-scratch2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, scientists have created life with genetic code that was developed from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>A University of Cambridge team created living, reproducing <em>E. coli<\/em> bacteria with DNA coded entirely by humans, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/15\/science\/synthetic-genome-bacteria.html\">according to <em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a>. The new bacteria look a little wonky, but they behave more or less the same as natural <em>E. coli<\/em>. Learning to rebuild genomes from scratch could teach scientists how DNA originally came to be \u2014 and how we can manipulate it to create new life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/organism-synthetic-genome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, scientists have created life with genetic code that was developed from scratch. A University of Cambridge team created living, reproducing E. coli bacteria with DNA coded entirely by humans, according to The New York Times. The new bacteria look a little wonky, but they behave more or less the same as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90908","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}