{"id":177014,"date":"2023-11-29T10:22:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T16:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/a-new-way-to-see-the-activity-inside-a-living-cell"},"modified":"2023-11-29T10:22:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T16:22:46","slug":"a-new-way-to-see-the-activity-inside-a-living-cell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/a-new-way-to-see-the-activity-inside-a-living-cell","title":{"rendered":"A new way to see the activity inside a living cell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-way-to-see-the-activity-inside-a-living-cell2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Living cells are bombarded with many kinds of incoming molecular signal that influence their behavior. Being able to measure those signals and how cells respond to them through downstream molecular signaling networks could help scientists learn much more about how cells work, including what happens as they age or become diseased.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, this kind of comprehensive study is not possible because current techniques for imaging cells are limited to just a handful of different molecule types within a cell at one time. However, MIT researchers have developed an alternative method that allows them to observe up to seven different molecules at a time, and potentially even more than that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are many examples in biology where an event triggers a long downstream cascade of events, which then causes a specific cellular function,\u201d says Edward Boyden, the Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology. \u201cHow does that occur? It\u2019s arguably one of the fundamental problems of biology, and so we wondered, could you simply watch it happen?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living cells are bombarded with many kinds of incoming molecular signal that influence their behavior. Being able to measure those signals and how cells respond to them through downstream molecular signaling networks could help scientists learn much more about how cells work, including what happens as they age or become diseased. Right now, this kind [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177014","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}