{"id":183034,"date":"2024-02-19T11:25:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T17:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/scientists-unveil-first-ever-images-of-a-cell-building-its-molecular-highway"},"modified":"2024-02-19T11:25:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T17:25:58","slug":"scientists-unveil-first-ever-images-of-a-cell-building-its-molecular-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/scientists-unveil-first-ever-images-of-a-cell-building-its-molecular-highway","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Unveil First-Ever Images of a Cell Building Its \u2018Molecular Highway\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TzrUEilgCik?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers in Spain has achieved a breakthrough by capturing the world\u2019s first detailed images of a human cell\u2019s \u2018highway network\u2019 beginning to emerge.<\/p>\n<p>The high-resolution images and atomic-scale film help explain a longstanding puzzle of how small structures called microtubules form during cell division. The discovery could progress the development of targeted treatments for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/cancer\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">cancer<\/a>, and many other conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMicrotubules are critical components of cells, but all the images we see in textbooks describing the first moments of their creation are models or cartoons based on structures in yeast,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crg.eu\/en\/news\/human-cells-building-molecular-highways-captured-first-time\">says<\/a> biochemist Thomas Surrey from the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers in Spain has achieved a breakthrough by capturing the world\u2019s first detailed images of a human cell\u2019s \u2018highway network\u2019 beginning to emerge. The high-resolution images and atomic-scale film help explain a longstanding puzzle of how small structures called microtubules form during cell division. The discovery could progress the development of targeted [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183034","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=183034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}