{"id":123054,"date":"2021-05-26T20:22:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T03:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/bioengineers-develop-algorithm-to-compare-cells-across-species-with-striking-results"},"modified":"2021-05-26T20:22:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T03:22:59","slug":"bioengineers-develop-algorithm-to-compare-cells-across-species-with-striking-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/bioengineers-develop-algorithm-to-compare-cells-across-species-with-striking-results","title":{"rendered":"Bioengineers Develop Algorithm to Compare Cells Across Species \u2013 With Striking Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bioengineers-develop-algorithm-to-compare-cells-across-species-with-striking-results3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers created an algorithm to identify similar cell types from species \u2013 including fish, mice, flatworms and sponges \u2013 that have diverged for hundreds of millions of years, which could help fill in gaps in our understanding of evolution.<\/p>\n<p>Cells are the building blocks of life, present in every living organism. But how similar do you think your cells are to a mouse? A fish? A worm?<\/p>\n<p>Comparing cell types in different species across the tree of life can help biologists understand how cell types arose and how they have adapted to the functional needs of different life forms. This has been of increasing interest to evolutionary biologists in recent years because new technology now allows sequencing and identifying all cells throughout whole organisms. \u201cThere\u2019s essentially a wave in the scientific community to classify all types of cells in a wide variety of different organisms,\u201d explained Bo Wang, an assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers created an algorithm to identify similar cell types from species \u2013 including fish, mice, flatworms and sponges \u2013 that have diverged for hundreds of millions of years, which could help fill in gaps in our understanding of evolution. Cells are the building blocks of life, present in every living organism. But how similar do [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,3,385,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biological","category-evolution","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123054","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=123054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}