{"id":190496,"date":"2024-06-02T12:25:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T17:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/combi-tweez-a-new-nanotechnology-to-study-the-molecule-of-life"},"modified":"2024-06-02T12:25:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T17:25:17","slug":"combi-tweez-a-new-nanotechnology-to-study-the-molecule-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/combi-tweez-a-new-nanotechnology-to-study-the-molecule-of-life","title":{"rendered":"COMBI-Tweez: a new nanotechnology to study the molecule of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/combi-tweez-a-new-nanotechnology-to-study-the-molecule-of-life3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers based at the Dept of Biology and School of Physics, Engineering and Technology have developed a remarkable new technology which is able to study single biological molecules using intrinsic twist properties to bring about essential functions in cells.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cNano twists\u201d that drive life<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are myriad so-called \u201cchiral\u201d molecules in biology, which have a fascinating property of not appearing to have the same structure were you to look at their image in a mirror \u2014 one of the best known examples being DNA, the \u201cmolecule of life\u201d, whose chirality comes from its amazing double helix structure. This chirality, which looks in the case of extended DNA molecules like \u201cnano twists\u201d, results in a property which physicists describe as \u201csymmetry breaking\u201d which in turn can drive molecules into a range of different states. With input from sources of energy, these molecules can then jump between different states as part of their normal function, and it is this state jumping which essentially drives all processes in living cells \u2014 so chirality is an enormously fundamental feature which in effect effect steers key cellular processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers based at the Dept of Biology and School of Physics, Engineering and Technology have developed a remarkable new technology which is able to study single biological molecules using intrinsic twist properties to bring about essential functions in cells. \u201cNano twists\u201d that drive life There are myriad so-called \u201cchiral\u201d molecules in biology, which have a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190496","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=190496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}