{"id":918,"date":"2010-10-04T10:04:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T08:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genetologisch-onderzoek.nl\/index.php\/918\/biologie\/"},"modified":"2023-12-31T14:41:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T12:41:48","slug":"transgenic-life-found-in-the-smithsonian-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genetology.net\/index.php\/918\/biologie\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgenic Life found in the Smithsonian Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genetologisch-onderzoek.nl\/wp-content\/image_upload\/center-for-postnatural-history.jpg\" title=\"center for postnatural history\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.genetologisch-onderzoek.nl\/wp-content\/image_upload\/center-for-postnatural-history.jpg\" alt=\"center for postnatural history\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arabidopsis thaliana is a small unremarkable plant found growing  along roadsides, in fields and wastlands of the northern hemisphere. Its  apparent simplicity and relatively quick growing cycle made is a good  candidate for researchers studying genetics during the middle part of  the 20th century. In the 1970\u2032s Arabidopsis thaliana\u2019s life and habitat  changed rapidly. Researchers at Stanford University had developed a  technique for using bacteria to insert foreign genes into the genome of  Arabidopsis. In doing so, Arabidopsis become the first \u201ctransgenic\u201d  plant. With the advent of the commercial biotech industry in the 80\u2032s,  the familiar plant began taking up residence in climate controlled  research labs all over the world. It is now considered one of the  \u201cstandard model organisms\u201d which scientists use to try and understand  life, and engineers use to try to find new uses for life.<\/p>\n<p>A single specimen of Transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana rests in the  species\u2019 \u201cUnited States\u201d collection folder in the botany collection at  the Smithsonian. Wedge amidst its wilder relatives, it is an oddity  amongst its closest kin, but also within the Museum of Natural History  on the whole where it remains possibly the only genetically engineered  specimen within the collection.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postnatural.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Center for PostNatural History<\/a><\/p>\n<h6>The Center for PostNatural History is dedicated to the advancement of  knowledge relating to the complex interplay between culture, nature and  biotechnology. The PostNatural\u00a0 refers to living organisms that have  been altered through processes such as selective breeding or\u00a0 genetic  engineering. The mission of the Center for PostNatural History is to  acquire, interpret and provide access to a collection of living,  preserved and documented organisms of postnatural origin.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arabidopsis thaliana is a small unremarkable plant found growing along roadsides, in fields and wastlands of the northern hemisphere. Its apparent simplicity and relatively quick growing cycle made is a good candidate for researchers studying genetics during the middle part of the 20th century. In the 1970\u2032s Arabidopsis thaliana\u2019s life and habitat changed rapidly. Researchers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genetology.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genetology.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genetology.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genetology.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genetology.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genetology.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132,"href":"https:\/\/www.genetology.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/1132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genetology.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genetology.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genetology.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}