{"id":124527,"date":"2021-07-02T08:22:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T15:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/molecular-machines-talk-to-living-cells-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2021-07-02T08:22:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T15:22:22","slug":"molecular-machines-talk-to-living-cells-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/molecular-machines-talk-to-living-cells-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Molecular machines talk to living cells for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/molecular-machines-talk-to-living-cells-for-the-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, an artificial molecular motor has been created that can \u2018talk\u2019 to living cells \u2013 by gently pulling their surface with enough physical force to elicit a biochemical response. The approach could help scientists decode the language that cells use to communicate with each other in tissues.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018There is a mechanical language in the form of physical forces applied by the cells themselves, and we want to understand what information is communicated and what the consequences are,\u2019 explains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leibniz-inm.de\/en\/research\/bio-interfaces\/dynamic-biomaterials\/\">Ar\u00e1nzazu del Campo<\/a>, who led the study at the Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Germany. \u2018Ultimately, we want to be able to provide signals to cells and guide their function when they are not able to do that by themselves in disease cases.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Usually, studying how cells communicate by sensing mechanical stimuli and producing biochemical responses requires prodding them with pipettes or the tip of an atomic force microscope. However, this doesn\u2019t work at the more complex tissue level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, an artificial molecular motor has been created that can \u2018talk\u2019 to living cells \u2013 by gently pulling their surface with enough physical force to elicit a biochemical response. The approach could help scientists decode the language that cells use to communicate with each other in tissues. \u2018There is a mechanical language [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124527","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\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}