{"id":104276,"date":"2020-03-25T20:44:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T03:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/computational-human-cell-reveals-new-insight-on-genetic-information-processing"},"modified":"2020-03-25T20:44:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T03:44:31","slug":"computational-human-cell-reveals-new-insight-on-genetic-information-processing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/computational-human-cell-reveals-new-insight-on-genetic-information-processing","title":{"rendered":"Computational human cell reveals new insight on genetic information processing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/computational-human-cell-reveals-new-insight-on-genetic-information-processing3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed the first computational model of a human cell and simulated its behavior for 15 minutes\u2014the longest time achieved for a biological system of this complexity. In a new study, simulations reveal the effects of spatial organization within cells on some of the genetic processes that control the regulation and development of human traits and some human diseases.<\/p>\n<p>The study, which produced a new computational platform that is available to any researcher, is published in the journal PLOS Computational Biology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first program that allows researchers to set up a virtual human cell and change <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+reactions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical reactions<\/a> and geometries to observe cellular processes in real time,\u201d said Zhaleh Ghaemi, a research scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and lead author of the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed the first computational model of a human cell and simulated its behavior for 15 minutes\u2014the longest time achieved for a biological system of this complexity. In a new study, simulations reveal the effects of spatial organization within cells on some of the genetic processes that control the regulation and development of human [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}