{"id":98373,"date":"2019-11-11T08:42:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T16:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/the-next-software-revolution-programming-biological-cells"},"modified":"2019-11-11T08:42:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T16:42:38","slug":"the-next-software-revolution-programming-biological-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/the-next-software-revolution-programming-biological-cells","title":{"rendered":"The next software revolution: programming biological cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-next-software-revolution-programming-biological-cells3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cells in your body are like computer software: they\u2019re \u201cprogrammed\u201d to carry out specific functions at specific times. If we can better understand this process, we could unlock the ability to reprogram cells ourselves, says computational biologist Sara-Jane Dunn. In a talk from the cutting-edge of science, she explains how her team is studying embryonic stem cells to gain a new understanding of the biological programs that power life \u2014 and develop \u201cliving software\u201d that could transform medicine, agriculture and energy.<\/p>\n<p>This talk was presented at an official TED conference, and was featured by our editors on the home page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cells in your body are like computer software: they\u2019re \u201cprogrammed\u201d to carry out specific functions at specific times. If we can better understand this process, we could unlock the ability to reprogram cells ourselves, says computational biologist Sara-Jane Dunn. In a talk from the cutting-edge of science, she explains how her team is studying [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98373","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=98373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}