{"id":154237,"date":"2023-01-03T00:23:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T06:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/self-assembling-proteins-can-store-cellular-memories"},"modified":"2023-01-03T00:23:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T06:23:04","slug":"self-assembling-proteins-can-store-cellular-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/self-assembling-proteins-can-store-cellular-memories","title":{"rendered":"Self-assembling proteins can store cellular \u2018memories\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/self-assembling-proteins-can-store-cellular-memories2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As cells perform their everyday functions, they turn on a variety of genes and cellular pathways. MIT engineers have now coaxed cells to inscribe the history of these events in a long protein chain that can be imaged using a light microscope.<\/p>\n<p>Cells programmed to produce these chains continuously add building blocks that encode particular cellular events. Later, the ordered protein chains can be labeled with <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fluorescent+molecules\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fluorescent molecules<\/a> and read under a microscope, allowing researchers to reconstruct the timing of the events.<\/p>\n<p>This technique could help shed light on the steps that underlie processes such as memory formation, response to drug treatment, and gene expression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As cells perform their everyday functions, they turn on a variety of genes and cellular pathways. MIT engineers have now coaxed cells to inscribe the history of these events in a long protein chain that can be imaged using a light microscope. Cells programmed to produce these chains continuously add building blocks that encode particular [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154237","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}