{"id":95645,"date":"2019-09-01T02:04:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T09:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/giant-virus-has-evolved-its-own-kind-of-crispr-to-destroy-invaders"},"modified":"2019-09-01T02:04:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T09:04:04","slug":"giant-virus-has-evolved-its-own-kind-of-crispr-to-destroy-invaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/giant-virus-has-evolved-its-own-kind-of-crispr-to-destroy-invaders","title":{"rendered":"Giant virus has evolved its own kind of CRISPR to destroy invaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/giant-virus-has-evolved-its-own-kind-of-crispr-to-destroy-invaders3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Michael Le Page<\/p>\n<p>The mimivirus is so enormous it has its own kind of CRISPR-like immune system to defend against the smaller viruses that attack it. A team in France has confirmed how it works by transferring the entire system to a bacterium and tweaking it to destroy a different target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michael Le Page The mimivirus is so enormous it has its own kind of CRISPR-like immune system to defend against the smaller viruses that attack it. A team in France has confirmed how it works by transferring the entire system to a bacterium and tweaking it to destroy a different target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95645","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=95645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}