{"id":490629,"date":"2018-06-26T09:14:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T13:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=37993da47a9ccff2ca80e4c38d062b89"},"modified":"2018-06-26T09:14:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T13:14:25","slug":"bacteria-as-living-factories-for-the-production-of-powerful-antibiotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=490629","title":{"rendered":"Bacteria as living factories for the production of powerful antibiotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By definition, antibiotics kill bacteria. Nevertheless, TU Delft researchers have succeeded in engineering bacteria to produce promising amounts of a simple carbapenem antibiotic. Carbapenem antibiotics are effective against many bacteria and are usually only used when other antibiotics fail. They are currently only produced synthetically \u2013 an expensive process that also leads to chemical waste. This research suggests that by using bacteria as &#8220;living factories,&#8221; carbapenems might also be produced biologically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By definition, antibiotics kill bacteria. Nevertheless, TU Delft researchers have succeeded in engineering bacteria to produce promising amounts of a simple carbapenem antibiotic. Carbapenem antibiotics are effective against many bacteria and are usually only used when other antibiotics fail. They are currently only produced synthetically &ndash; an expensive process that also leads to chemical waste. This research suggests that by using bacteria as &#8220;living factories,&#8221; carbapenems might also be produced biologically.<\/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-490629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490629","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=490629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490630,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490629\/revisions\/490630"}],"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=490629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=490629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=490629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}