{"id":143106,"date":"2022-07-29T14:22:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T19:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/a-nano-robot-built-entirely-from-dna-to-explore-cell-processes"},"modified":"2022-07-29T14:22:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T19:22:52","slug":"a-nano-robot-built-entirely-from-dna-to-explore-cell-processes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/a-nano-robot-built-entirely-from-dna-to-explore-cell-processes","title":{"rendered":"A \u201cNano-Robot\u201d Built Entirely from DNA to Explore Cell Processes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-nano-robot-built-entirely-from-dna-to-explore-cell-processes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Constructing a tiny robot from DNA and using it to study cell processes invisible to the naked eye\u2026 You would be forgiven for thinking it is science fiction, but it is in fact the subject of serious research by scientists from Inserm, CNRS and Universit\u00e9 de Montpellier at the Structural Biology Center in Montpellier<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/presse.inserm.fr\/en\/a-nano-robot-built-entirely-from-dna-to-explore-cell-processes\/45568\/#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\"><strong>[1]<\/strong><\/a><strong>. This highly innovative \u201cnano-robot\u201d should enable closer study of the mechanical forces applied at microscopic levels, which are crucial for many biological and pathological processes. It is described in a new study published in <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-022-30745-2\"><strong><em>Nature Communications<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our cells are subject to mechanical forces exerted on a microscopic scale, triggering biological signals essential to many cell processes involved in the normal functioning of our body or in the development of diseases.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the feeling of touch is partly conditional on the application of mechanical forces on specific cell receptors (the discovery of which was this year rewarded by the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constructing a tiny robot from DNA and using it to study cell processes invisible to the naked eye\u2026 You would be forgiven for thinking it is science fiction, but it is in fact the subject of serious research by scientists from Inserm, CNRS and Universit\u00e9 de Montpellier at the Structural Biology Center in Montpellier[1]. This [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143106","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=143106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}