{"id":6490,"date":"2016-03-26T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/?p=1993267"},"modified":"2016-03-26T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T11:00:07","slug":"the-mystery-of-the-minimal-cell-craig-venters-new-synthetic-life-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2016\/03\/26\/the-mystery-of-the-minimal-cell-craig-venters-new-synthetic-life-form\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery of the Minimal Cell, Craig Venter\u2019s New Synthetic Life Form"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rss_thumbnail\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Cell_Blue-feature-art-660x370.jpg\" alt=\"The Mystery of the Minimal Cell, Craig Venter&#8217;s New Synthetic Life Form\" \/><\/div>Scientists have created a synthetic organism that possesses only the genes it needs to survive. But they have no idea what roughly a third of those genes do. The post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/03\/mystery-minimal-cell-craig-venters-new-synthetic-life-form\/\">The Mystery of the Minimal Cell, Craig Venter's New Synthetic Life Form<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/\">WIRED<\/a>.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have created a synthetic organism that possesses only the genes it needs to survive. But they have no idea what roughly a third of those genes do. The post The Mystery of the Minimal Cell, Craig Venter&#8217;s New Synthetic Life Form appeared firs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1433,237,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-craig-venter","category-genetics","category-quanta-magazine","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6491,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490\/revisions\/6491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}