{"id":139042,"date":"2022-05-07T09:02:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T14:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/scientists-engineer-new-tools-to-electronically-control-gene-expression"},"modified":"2022-05-07T09:02:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T14:02:22","slug":"scientists-engineer-new-tools-to-electronically-control-gene-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/scientists-engineer-new-tools-to-electronically-control-gene-expression","title":{"rendered":"Scientists engineer new tools to electronically control gene expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-engineer-new-tools-to-electronically-control-gene-expression3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers, led by experts at Imperial College London, have developed a new method that allows gene expression to be precisely altered by supplying and removing electrons.<\/p>\n<p>This could help control biomedical implants in the body or reactions in large \u2018bioreactors\u2019 that produce drugs and other useful compounds. Current stimuli used to initiate such reactions are often unable to penetrate materials or pose risk of toxicity\u2014electricity holds the solution.<\/p>\n<p>Gene expression is the process by which <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/genes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">genes<\/a> are \u2018activated\u2019 to produce new molecules and other downstream effects in cells. In organisms, it is regulated by regions of the DNA called promoters. Some promoters, called inducible promoters, can respond to different stimuli, such as light, chemicals and temperature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers, led by experts at Imperial College London, have developed a new method that allows gene expression to be precisely altered by supplying and removing electrons. This could help control biomedical implants in the body or reactions in large \u2018bioreactors\u2019 that produce drugs and other useful compounds. Current stimuli used to initiate such reactions are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139042","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}