{"id":117598,"date":"2020-12-24T15:22:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T23:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/scientists-pioneer-new-method-of-measuring-electricity-in-cells"},"modified":"2020-12-24T15:22:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T23:22:41","slug":"scientists-pioneer-new-method-of-measuring-electricity-in-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/scientists-pioneer-new-method-of-measuring-electricity-in-cells","title":{"rendered":"Scientists pioneer new method of measuring electricity in cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-pioneer-new-method-of-measuring-electricity-in-cells3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electricity is a key ingredient in living bodies. We know that voltage differences are important in biological systems; they drive the beating of the heart and allow neurons to communicate with one another. But for decades, it wasn\u2019t possible to measure voltage differences between organelles\u2014the membrane-wrapped structures inside the cell\u2014and the rest of the cell.<\/p>\n<p>A pioneering technology created by UChicago scientists, however, allows researchers to peer into cells to see how many different organelles use voltages to carry out functions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScientists had noticed for a long time that charged dyes used for staining cells would get stuck in the mitochondria,\u201d explained graduate student Anand Saminathan, the first author for the paper, which was published in <i>Nature Nanotechnology<\/i>. \u201cBut little work has been done to investigate the membrane potential of other organelles in live cells.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity is a key ingredient in living bodies. We know that voltage differences are important in biological systems; they drive the beating of the heart and allow neurons to communicate with one another. But for decades, it wasn\u2019t possible to measure voltage differences between organelles\u2014the membrane-wrapped structures inside the cell\u2014and the rest of the cell. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117598","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=117598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}