{"id":93356,"date":"2019-07-09T07:42:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T14:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/fast-new-directed-evolution-technique-makes-viruses-create-drug-proteins-in-days"},"modified":"2019-07-09T07:42:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T14:42:49","slug":"fast-new-directed-evolution-technique-makes-viruses-create-drug-proteins-in-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/fast-new-directed-evolution-technique-makes-viruses-create-drug-proteins-in-days","title":{"rendered":"Fast new directed evolution technique makes viruses create drug proteins in days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fast-new-directed-evolution-technique-makes-viruses-create-drug-proteins-in-days.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Evolution is one of nature\u2019s most impressive forces, allowing organisms to adapt to changing environments to survive. By harnessing and guiding that process scientists have managed to manipulate micro-organisms into producing useful new drugs and materials, but it\u2019s still a time-consuming process. Now, researchers at the University of North Carolina (UNC) have developed a new tool that speeds up the process in mammalian cells, creating new therapeutics in a matter of days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evolution is one of nature\u2019s most impressive forces, allowing organisms to adapt to changing environments to survive. By harnessing and guiding that process scientists have managed to manipulate micro-organisms into producing useful new drugs and materials, but it\u2019s still a time-consuming process. Now, researchers at the University of North Carolina (UNC) have developed a new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93356","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}