{"id":117588,"date":"2020-12-24T09:22:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T17:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/ai-designed-serotonin-sensor-may-help-scientists-study-sleep-and-mental-health"},"modified":"2020-12-24T09:22:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T17:22:44","slug":"ai-designed-serotonin-sensor-may-help-scientists-study-sleep-and-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/ai-designed-serotonin-sensor-may-help-scientists-study-sleep-and-mental-health","title":{"rendered":"AI-Designed Serotonin Sensor May Help Scientists Study Sleep and Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-designed-serotonin-sensor-may-help-scientists-study-sleep-and-mental-health.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Summary: <\/strong>Artificial intelligence technology redesigned a bacterial protein that helps researchers track serotonin in the brain in real-time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source: <\/strong>NIH<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Serotonin is a neurochemical that plays a critical role in the way the brain controls our thoughts and feelings. For example, many antidepressants are designed to alter serotonin signals sent between neurons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an article in <em>Cell<\/em>, National Institutes of Health-funded researchers described how they used advanced genetic engineering techniques to transform a bacterial protein into a new research tool that may help monitor serotonin transmission with greater fidelity than current methods. Preclinical experiments, primarily in mice, showed that the sensor could detect subtle, real-time changes in brain serotonin levels during sleep, fear, and social interactions, as well as test the effectiveness of new psychoactive drugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Artificial intelligence technology redesigned a bacterial protein that helps researchers track serotonin in the brain in real-time. Source: NIH Serotonin is a neurochemical that plays a critical role in the way the brain controls our thoughts and feelings. For example, many antidepressants are designed to alter serotonin signals sent between neurons. In an article [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,19,412,1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-genetics","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117588","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}