{"id":175359,"date":"2023-11-03T14:24:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T19:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/researchers-can-now-visualize-osmotic-pressure-in-living-tissue"},"modified":"2023-11-03T14:24:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T19:24:33","slug":"researchers-can-now-visualize-osmotic-pressure-in-living-tissue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/researchers-can-now-visualize-osmotic-pressure-in-living-tissue","title":{"rendered":"Researchers can now visualize osmotic pressure in living tissue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-can-now-visualize-osmotic-pressure-in-living-tissue3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In order to survive, organisms must control the pressure inside them, from the single-cell level to tissues and organs. Measuring these pressures in living cells and tissues in physiological conditions is a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>In research that has its origin at UC Santa Barbara, scientists now at the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life (PoL) at the Technical University in Dresden (TU Dresden), Germany, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-023-42024-9.epdf\">report in the journal <i>Nature Communications<\/i><\/a> a new technique to \u2018visualize\u2019 these pressures as organisms develop. These measurements can help understand how cells and tissues survive under <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/pressure\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">pressure<\/a>, and reveal how problems in regulating pressures lead to disease.<\/p>\n<p>When molecules dissolved in water are separated into different compartments, water has the tendency to flow from one compartment to another to equilibrate their concentrations, a process known as osmosis. If some molecules cannot cross the membrane that separates them, a pressure imbalance\u2014osmotic pressure\u2014builds up between compartments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to survive, organisms must control the pressure inside them, from the single-cell level to tissues and organs. Measuring these pressures in living cells and tissues in physiological conditions is a challenge. In research that has its origin at UC Santa Barbara, scientists now at the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life (PoL) at [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175359","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=175359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}