{"id":183519,"date":"2024-02-24T11:22:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T17:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/new-color-changing-invention-enables-time-travel-within-cells"},"modified":"2024-02-24T11:22:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T17:22:50","slug":"new-color-changing-invention-enables-time-travel-within-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/new-color-changing-invention-enables-time-travel-within-cells","title":{"rendered":"New Color-Changing Invention Enables \u201cTime Travel\u201d Within Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-color-changing-invention-enables-time-travel-within-cells3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/trinity-college-dublin\/\">Trinity College Dublin<\/a>, working together with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), have developed special fluorescent, color-changing dyes that, for the first time, can be used to simultaneously visualize multiple distinct biological environments using only one singular dye.<\/p>\n<p>When these dyes are encapsulated in delivery vessels, like those used in technologies like the COVID-19 vaccines, they \u201cswitch on\u201d and give out light via a process called \u201caggregation-induced emission\u201d (AIE). Soon after delivery into the cells their light \u201cswitches off\u201d before \u201cswitching on\u201d again once the cells shuttle the dyes into cellular lipid droplets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Trinity College Dublin, working together with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), have developed special fluorescent, color-changing dyes that, for the first time, can be used to simultaneously visualize multiple distinct biological environments using only one singular dye. When these dyes are encapsulated in delivery vessels, like those used in technologies [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183519","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=183519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}