{"id":668041,"date":"2020-09-25T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=668041"},"modified":"2020-09-25T05:00:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T09:00:01","slug":"machine-learning-takes-on-synthetic-biology-algorithms-can-bioengineer-cells-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=668041","title":{"rendered":"Machine learning takes on synthetic biology: algorithms can bioengineer cells for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve eaten vegan burgers that taste like meat or used synthetic collagen in your beauty routine\u2014both products that are &#8220;grown&#8221; in the lab\u2014then you&#8217;ve benefited from synthetic biology. It&#8217;s a field rife with potential, as it allows scientists to design biological systems to specification, such as engineering a microbe to produce a cancer-fighting agent. Yet conventional methods of bioengineering are slow and laborious, with trial and error being the main approach.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-09-machine-synthetic-biology-algorithms-bioengineer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Machine learning takes on synthetic biology: algorithms can bioengineer cells for you<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve eaten vegan burgers that taste like meat or used synthetic collagen in your beauty routine\u2014both products that are &#8220;grown&#8221; in the lab\u2014then you&#8217;ve benefited from synthetic biology. It&#8217;s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668041","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=668041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668041\/revisions"}],"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=668041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=668041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=668041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}