{"id":96144,"date":"2019-09-12T20:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T03:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/scientists-are-racing-to-reengineer-the-banana-before-its-gone-forever"},"modified":"2019-09-12T20:22:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T03:22:31","slug":"scientists-are-racing-to-reengineer-the-banana-before-its-gone-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/scientists-are-racing-to-reengineer-the-banana-before-its-gone-forever","title":{"rendered":"Scientists are racing to reengineer the banana before it\u2019s gone forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-are-racing-to-reengineer-the-banana-before-its-gone-forever2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A deadly fungus is spreading through banana plantations, and the cloned bananas we eat are defenseless. In labs around the world, scientists are trying to find ways to genetically alter the fruit to make it resistant.<\/p>\n<p>[Images: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawpixel.com\/image\/262342\/vintage-bananas-drawing\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rawpixel<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deadly fungus is spreading through banana plantations, and the cloned bananas we eat are defenseless. In labs around the world, scientists are trying to find ways to genetically alter the fruit to make it resistant. [Images: Rawpixel]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96144","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=96144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}