{"id":425,"date":"2003-03-11T04:32:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-11T04:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=425"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:35:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:35:04","slug":"the-microscopic-island-of-dr-moreau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"the microscopic island of dr. moreau?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Using genetic engineering, British researchers  have converted one species of yeast into another. Stephen Oliver of the  University of Manchester and his colleagues reported in the March 6 <em> Nature<\/em> that swapping chunks of genetic material can create different  species. Oliver and his team rearranged the chromosomes of common  baker&#8217;s yeast, also known as <em>Saccharomyces cerevisiae,<\/em> to be identical  to the yeast <em>Saccharomyces mikatae,<\/em> and then left them to mate. Though  closely related, the two species of yeast are normally unable to breed  successfully. (In animals, plants, and fungi, the ability to interbreed  and produce fertile offspring is part of what defines a species.) After  the genetic manipulation, however, the two species were able to  interbreed, and almost 30 percent of the offspring were fertile.  Traditionally, scientists have studied how species develop by focusing  on ecological or geographical influences, but these results show that  naturally occurring chromosomal reshuffling could do the trick as well. <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 3\/11\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using genetic engineering, British researchers have converted one species of yeast into another. Stephen Oliver of the University of Manchester and his colleagues reported in the March 6 Nature that swapping chunks of genetic material can create different species. Oliver &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=425\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}