{"id":200618,"date":"2024-12-02T09:27:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T15:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/scientists-develop-self-sustained-protein-transport-and-tissue-assembly-in-artificial-cells"},"modified":"2024-12-02T09:27:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T15:27:04","slug":"scientists-develop-self-sustained-protein-transport-and-tissue-assembly-in-artificial-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/scientists-develop-self-sustained-protein-transport-and-tissue-assembly-in-artificial-cells","title":{"rendered":"Scientists develop self-sustained protein transport and tissue assembly in artificial cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-develop-self-sustained-protein-transport-and-tissue-assembly-in-artificial-cells3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a new <i>Nature Communications<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-53783-4\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>, scientists have developed a novel method for artificial cells to interact with their external environment without the need for complex modification processes.<\/p>\n<p>This method could open new frontiers in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/tissue+engineering\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">tissue engineering<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/drug+delivery\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">drug delivery<\/a>, and cell processes.<\/p>\n<p>Biological cells are protected by a membrane, made of phospholipids, which modulates interactions with the outside environment. Recreating this in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/artificial+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">artificial cells<\/a> is challenging, requiring manual external modification of the membrane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new Nature Communications study, scientists have developed a novel method for artificial cells to interact with their external environment without the need for complex modification processes. This method could open new frontiers in tissue engineering, drug delivery, and cell processes. Biological cells are protected by a membrane, made of phospholipids, which modulates interactions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200618","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}