{"id":202146,"date":"2024-12-22T07:10:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T13:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/introducing-perceptein-a-protein-based-artificial-neural-network-in-living-cells"},"modified":"2024-12-22T07:10:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T13:10:06","slug":"introducing-perceptein-a-protein-based-artificial-neural-network-in-living-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/introducing-perceptein-a-protein-based-artificial-neural-network-in-living-cells","title":{"rendered":"Introducing perceptein, a protein-based artificial neural network in living cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/introducing-perceptein-a-protein-based-artificial-neural-network-in-living-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Westlake University in China and the California Institute of Technology have designed a protein-based system inside living cells that can process multiple signals and make decisions based on them.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers have also introduced a unique term, \u201cperceptein,\u201d as a combination of protein and perceptron. Perceptron is a foundational artificial neural network concept, effectively solving binary classification problems by mapping input features to an output decision.<\/p>\n<p>By merging concepts from neural network theory with <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/protein+engineering\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">protein engineering<\/a>, \u201cperceptein\u201d represents a biological system capable of performing classification computations at the protein level, similar to a basic artificial neural network. This \u201cperceptein\u201d circuit can classify different signals and respond accordingly, such as deciding to stay alive or undergo programmed cell death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Westlake University in China and the California Institute of Technology have designed a protein-based system inside living cells that can process multiple signals and make decisions based on them. The researchers have also introduced a unique term, \u201cperceptein,\u201d as a combination of protein and perceptron. Perceptron is a foundational artificial neural network concept, effectively solving [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,269,1965,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-life-extension","category-mapping","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202146","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}