{"id":97699,"date":"2019-10-21T23:43:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T06:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/what-is-build-a-cell"},"modified":"2019-10-21T23:43:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T06:43:26","slug":"what-is-build-a-cell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/what-is-build-a-cell","title":{"rendered":"What is Build-A-Cell?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-is-build-a-cell.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cells are the fundamental \u201cbuilding blocks\u201d that make up living organisms. Yet, we don\u2019t know exactly how cells were formed in the first place. We also don\u2019t know what all the molecules that make up any natural cell do. Finally, we can\u2019t yet put molecules together ourselves to make new synthetic cells.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the questions and challenges posed above requires significant collaboration and cooperation. The Build-a-Cell community welcomes all who wish to learn about and cooperate in the work of fully understanding and engineering a diversity of synthetic cells.<\/p>\n<p>The future of biotechnology is in realizing fully understood, lineage agnostic organisms, beginning with single cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cells are the fundamental \u201cbuilding blocks\u201d that make up living organisms. Yet, we don\u2019t know exactly how cells were formed in the first place. We also don\u2019t know what all the molecules that make up any natural cell do. Finally, we can\u2019t yet put molecules together ourselves to make new synthetic cells. Addressing the questions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97699","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=97699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}