{"id":1984,"date":"2010-07-26T04:35:43","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T04:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2010-07-26T04:35:43","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T04:35:43","slug":"genetically-engineered-algae-experts-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/genetically-engineered-algae-experts-views.html","title":{"rendered":"Genetically Engineered Algae &#8211; Experts Views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign genes are being spliced into algae and native genes are being  tweaked.<\/p>\n<p>Different strains of algae are pitted against one another in  survival-of-the-fittest contests in an effort to accelerate the  evolution of fast-growing, hardy strains.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is nothing less than to create superalgae, highly efficient at  converting sunlight and carbon dioxide into lipids and oils that can be  sent to a refinery and made into diesel or jet fuel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve probably engineered over 4,000 strains,\u201d said Mike Mendez, a  co-founder and vice president for technology at Sapphire Energy, the  owner of the laboratory. \u201cMy whole goal here at Sapphire is to  domesticate algae, to make it a crop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/26\/business\/energy-environment\/26algae.html?src=busln\">See more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign genes are being spliced into algae and native genes are being tweaked. Different strains of algae are pitted against one another in survival-of-the-fittest contests in an effort to accelerate the evolution of fast-growing, hardy strains. The goal is nothing less than to create superalgae, highly efficient at converting sunlight and carbon dioxide into lipids [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-fuel-research","category-algae-strains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1985,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions\/1985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}