{"id":326023,"date":"2010-02-15T19:59:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T00:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22313"},"modified":"2010-02-15T19:59:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T00:59:43","slug":"the-scary-world-of-synthetic-biology-goes-diy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/326023","title":{"rendered":"The Scary World Of Synthetic Biology Goes DIY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/2009\/09\/where-will-synthetic-biology-lead-us\/\">posted a New Yorker story<\/a> about synthetic biology. Now the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/14\/magazine\/14Biology-t.html\">New York Times<\/a> reports that the stakes are getting higher, and scarier:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;The first thing to understand about the new science of synthetic biology is that it\u2019s not really a new science; it\u2019s a brazen call to conduct an existing one much more ambitiously. For almost 40 years, genetic engineers have been decoding DNA and transplanting individual genes from one organism into another. (One company, for example, famously experimented with putting a gene from an arctic flounder into tomatoes to make a variety of frost-resistant tomatoes.) But synthetic biologists want to break out of this cut-and-paste paradigm altogether. They want to write brand-new genetic code, pulling together specific genes or portions of genes plucked from a wide range&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago I posted a New Yorker story about synthetic biology. Now the New York Times reports that the stakes are getting higher, and scarier: &#8230;The first thing to understand about the new science of synthetic biology is that it\u2019s not really a new science; it\u2019s a brazen call to conduct an existing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}