{"id":734101,"date":"2010-05-26T18:40:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T22:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itecsinsider.com\/?p=15526"},"modified":"2010-05-26T18:40:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T22:40:21","slug":"biofuel-industry-offers-guarded-welcome-to-%e2%80%9csynthetic-cell%e2%80%9d-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/734101","title":{"rendered":"Biofuel Industry Offers Guarded Welcome To \u201cSynthetic Cell\u201d Breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 6pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10288\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px;\" title=\"stem-cell\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/itecsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/stem-cell.jpg?resize=72%2C78\" alt=\"stem-cell\" width=\"72\" height=\"78\" \/>By Jessica Shankleman<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 6pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">(BusinessGreen, May 21, 2010) It has been hailed as one of the most significant and controversial scientific breakthroughs in decades, raising the prospect of a new era of synthetic biology that promises to tackle many of the world&#8217;s environmental problems. But renewable energy experts downplayed news that a team of scientists have created the world&#8217;s first artificial cell, warning it will take years before the breakthrough can be put to commercial use.\u00a0 Scientists at the J Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), led by geneticist Craig Venter, today published a paper in the journal Science detailing how they have successfully created the first synthetic bacterial cell, effectively creating what some scientists have hailed as an entirely new species.\u00a0 JCVI&#8217;s commercial backer Synthetic Genomics (SGI), which was co-founded by Venter, issued a statement applauding the discovery as a major breakthrough that will ultimately enable the development of man-made organic technologies capable of producing biofuels and tackling pollution.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessgreen.com\/business-green\/news\/2263495\/breakthrough-cell-long-way\" >Click here to read more\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jessica Shankleman (BusinessGreen, May 21, 2010) It has been hailed as one of the most significant and controversial scientific breakthroughs in decades, raising the prospect of a new era of synthetic biology that promises to tackle many of the world&#8217;s environmental problems. But renewable energy experts downplayed news that a team of scientists have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-34Yl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}