{"id":380212,"date":"2017-09-28T10:10:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T14:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=babbd986074dd3d06c291700759ef8cc"},"modified":"2017-09-28T10:10:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T14:10:02","slug":"fluorine-containing-molecules-from-cell-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=380212","title":{"rendered":"Fluorine-containing molecules from cell cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Natural organic compounds that contain fluorine are rare because living organisms\u2014with a few exceptions\u2014do not produce them. American scientists have now genetically engineered a microbial host for organofluorine metabolism, allowing it to produce a fluoridated intermediate known as a diketide. As reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie, the diketide could then be used as a monomer for the in vivo production of fluorinated bioplastics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natural organic compounds that contain fluorine are rare because living organisms&mdash;with a few exceptions&mdash;do not produce them. American scientists have now genetically engineered a microbial host for organofluorine metabolism, allowing it to produce a fluoridated intermediate known as a diketide. As reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie, the diketide could then be used as a monomer for the in vivo production of fluorinated bioplastics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380213,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380212\/revisions\/380213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}