{"id":201294,"date":"2024-12-11T15:29:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T21:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/death-isnt-final-new-math-model-suggests-cells-can-be-revived"},"modified":"2024-12-11T15:29:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T21:29:06","slug":"death-isnt-final-new-math-model-suggests-cells-can-be-revived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/death-isnt-final-new-math-model-suggests-cells-can-be-revived","title":{"rendered":"Death Isn\u2019t Final: New Math Model Suggests Cells Can Be Revived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/death-isnt-final-new-math-model-suggests-cells-can-be-revived2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cellular death is a fundamental concept in biological sciences. Despite its importance, its definition varies depending on the context in which it occurs and lacks a general mathematical definition.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-tokyo\/\">University of Tokyo<\/a> propose a new mathematical definition of death based on whether a potentially dead cell can return to a predefined \u201crepresentative state of living,\u201d which are the states of being that we can confidently call \u201calive.\u201d The researchers\u2019 work could be useful for biological researchers and future medical research.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s not something we like to think about, death comes for us all eventually, whether you\u2019re an animal, a plant, or even a cell. And even though we can all differentiate between what is alive and dead, it might be surprising to know that death at a cellular level lacks a widely recognized mathematical definition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cellular death is a fundamental concept in biological sciences. Despite its importance, its definition varies depending on the context in which it occurs and lacks a general mathematical definition. Researchers from the University of Tokyo propose a new mathematical definition of death based on whether a potentially dead cell can return to a predefined \u201crepresentative [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201294","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}