{"id":203014,"date":"2025-01-03T05:08:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T11:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/nanoparticle-technique-gauges-bite-force-in-tiny-c-elegans-worms"},"modified":"2025-01-03T05:08:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T11:08:39","slug":"nanoparticle-technique-gauges-bite-force-in-tiny-c-elegans-worms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/nanoparticle-technique-gauges-bite-force-in-tiny-c-elegans-worms","title":{"rendered":"Nanoparticle technique gauges bite force in tiny C. elegans worms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanoparticle-technique-gauges-bite-force-in-tiny-c-elegans-worms3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of materials scientists, physicists, mechanical engineers, and molecular physiologists at Stanford University have developed a nanoparticle technique that can be used to measure force dynamics inside a living creature, such as Caenorhabditis elegans worms biting their food.<\/p>\n<p>In their paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-08331-x\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Nature<\/i>, the group describes how they used <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/infrared+radiation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">infrared radiation<\/a> to excite luminescent nanocrystals in a way that allowed the energy levels of cells inside a C. elegans worm to be measured.<\/p>\n<p>Andries Meijerink, with Utrecht University, has published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-04103-9\" target=\"_blank\">News &amp; Views piece<\/a> in the same journal issue, outlining the work done by the team in California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of materials scientists, physicists, mechanical engineers, and molecular physiologists at Stanford University have developed a nanoparticle technique that can be used to measure force dynamics inside a living creature, such as Caenorhabditis elegans worms biting their food. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes how they used infrared radiation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,4,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-nanotechnology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203014","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=203014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}