{"id":59201,"date":"2025-11-24T20:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/59201\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T20:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:05:14","slug":"the-big-story-november-24-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/59201\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Story: November 24, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/iGEM_2025_1-1200x800.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-post-image\" alt=\"Students in white coats in a lab.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>FSU\u2019s\u00a0iGEM\u00a0team\u00a0designed,\u00a0built\u00a0and tested microplastic-binding proteins intended to\u00a0be taken orally and\u00a0work in the human\u00a0gastrointestinal\u00a0tract\u00a0to safely\u00a0eliminate\u00a0microplastics from\u00a0the body and prevent them from depositing\u00a0in other\u00a0organs\u00a0such as the brain or placenta.\u00a0(Photo by Brittany Mobley)\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Florida State University\u2019s\u00a0International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM)\u00a0team won a\u00a0gold medal\u00a0for the second year in a row at\u00a0the\u00a0world\u2019s largest\u00a0annual\u00a0synthetic biology competition. <a href=\"https:\/\/click.mailerlite.com\/link\/c\/YT0yODg1MTM4MDk5ODMzMTQ0NDc0JmM9ZzRsNiZiPTE0OTc0OTQ4NzEmZD1iNW00cTdh.tWJFvFra7Cg6GdJ-TQodS8SadupH6elTphWm8HwFm84\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-link-id=\"1497494871\">Read more \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/preview.mailerlite.com\/t0o1q1r5s5\/2885138099833144474\/g4l6\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View the newsletter.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FSU\u2019s\u00a0iGEM\u00a0team\u00a0designed,\u00a0built\u00a0and tested microplastic-binding proteins intended to\u00a0be taken orally and\u00a0work in the human\u00a0gastrointestinal\u00a0tract\u00a0to safely\u00a0eliminate\u00a0microplastics from\u00a0the body and prevent them&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-59201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}