{"id":131161,"date":"2021-11-24T10:22:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T18:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/we-might-not-know-half-of-whats-in-our-cells-new-ai-technique-reveals"},"modified":"2021-11-24T10:22:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T18:22:28","slug":"we-might-not-know-half-of-whats-in-our-cells-new-ai-technique-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/we-might-not-know-half-of-whats-in-our-cells-new-ai-technique-reveals","title":{"rendered":"We might not know half of what\u2019s in our cells, new AI technique reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-might-not-know-half-of-whats-in-our-cells-new-ai-technique-reveals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most human diseases can be traced to malfunctioning parts of a cell\u2014a tumor is able to grow because a gene wasn\u2019t accurately translated into a particular protein or a metabolic disease arises because mitochondria aren\u2019t firing properly, for example. But to understand what parts of a cell can go wrong in a disease, scientists first need to have a complete list of parts.<\/p>\n<p>By combining microscopy, biochemistry techniques and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/artificial+intelligence\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">artificial intelligence<\/a>, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and collaborators have taken what they think may turn out to be a significant leap forward in the understanding of human cells.<\/p>\n<p>The technique, known as Multi-Scale Integrated Cell (MuSIC), is described November 24, 2021 in Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most human diseases can be traced to malfunctioning parts of a cell\u2014a tumor is able to grow because a gene wasn\u2019t accurately translated into a particular protein or a metabolic disease arises because mitochondria aren\u2019t firing properly, for example. But to understand what parts of a cell can go wrong in a disease, scientists first [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131161","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=131161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}