{"id":125,"date":"2011-10-27T15:58:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T15:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=125"},"modified":"2011-10-27T15:58:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T15:58:58","slug":"more-news-that-isnt-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/10\/27\/more-news-that-isnt-news\/","title":{"rendered":"More news that isn&#8217;t news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found some emails in my outbox that I guess didn&#8217;t generate any          responses, but I still think they are interesting so will post them          here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Synthetic DNA added to yeast cells, paving way for &#8216;evolution&#8217; on demand<br \/>\nScientists&#8217; feat could lead to better biofuels and vaccines, and is a significant step towards completely synthetic organisms<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2011\/sep\/14\/synthetic-dna-in-yeast-breakthrough\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2011\/sep\/14\/synthetic-dna-in-yeast-breakthrough<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was doing this 20 years ago on a small scale and the &#8216;official&#8217; human genome sequencing relied on &#8216;bacterial artificial chromosomes&#8217; and for an absolute minimum people have been adding artificial chromosomes to yeast for a decade, and further, people have been subtracting and disabling genes for at least as long. \u00a0Where is the news in this article? \u00a0I can only think either a totally ignorant reporter who never had a biotech class in his life felt this was somehow special or there is a conspiracy to keep the readers (fewer and fewer each year, I know) bamboozled by thinking things are happening when they aren&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found some emails in my outbox that I guess didn&#8217;t generate any responses, but I still think they are interesting so will post them here&#8230; Synthetic DNA added to yeast cells, paving way for &#8216;evolution&#8217; on demand Scientists&#8217; feat could lead to better biofuels and vaccines, and is a significant step towards completely synthetic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/10\/27\/more-news-that-isnt-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More news that isn&#8217;t news&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}