{"id":114390,"date":"2020-10-14T09:22:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T16:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/robots-are-helping-to-advance-developmental-biology"},"modified":"2020-10-14T09:22:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T16:22:48","slug":"robots-are-helping-to-advance-developmental-biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/robots-are-helping-to-advance-developmental-biology","title":{"rendered":"Robots are helping to advance developmental biology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robots-are-helping-to-advance-developmental-biology2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robots are now assisting in advancing developmental biology.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The study of developmental biology is getting a robotic helping hand.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists are using a custom robot to survey how mutations in regulatory regions of the genome affect animal development. These regions aren\u2019t genes, but rather stretches of DNA called enhancers that determine how genes are turned on and off during development. The team describes the findings\u2014and the robot itself\u2014on October 14 in the journal Nature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe real star is this robot,\u201d says David Stern, a group leader at HHMI\u2019s Janelia Research Campus. \u201cIt was extremely creative engineering.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robots are now assisting in advancing developmental biology. The study of developmental biology is getting a robotic helping hand. Scientists are using a custom robot to survey how mutations in regulatory regions of the genome affect animal development. These regions aren\u2019t genes, but rather stretches of DNA called enhancers that determine how genes are turned [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114390","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}