{"id":161316,"date":"2023-03-30T14:23:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T19:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/digging-into-dna-repair-with-optical-tweezer-technology"},"modified":"2023-03-30T14:23:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T19:23:24","slug":"digging-into-dna-repair-with-optical-tweezer-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/digging-into-dna-repair-with-optical-tweezer-technology","title":{"rendered":"Digging into DNA Repair with Optical Tweezer Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/digging-into-dna-repair-with-optical-tweezer-technology.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Combining an optical tweezer technology called C-trap that manipulates a single molecule of DNA and a novel approach, researchers were able to receive a detailed view into how cells find and repair damaged DNA.<\/p>\n<p>Their findings are described in an article titled, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/nar\/gkad095\">Single-molecule analysis of DNA-binding proteins from nuclear extracts (SMADNE)<\/a>,\u201d published in <em>Nucleic Acids Research<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In the new study, the researchers used the C-trap to investigate how different DNA repair proteins identify and bind to their respective forms of damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Combining an optical tweezer technology called C-trap that manipulates a single molecule of DNA and a novel approach, researchers were able to receive a detailed view into how cells find and repair damaged DNA. Their findings are described in an article titled, \u201cSingle-molecule analysis of DNA-binding proteins from nuclear extracts (SMADNE),\u201d published in Nucleic Acids [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161316","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}