{"id":212930,"date":"2025-05-01T01:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T06:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/using-bacteria-as-living-test-tubes-to-study-human-gene-mutations-and-find-new-drug-leads"},"modified":"2025-05-01T01:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T06:13:11","slug":"using-bacteria-as-living-test-tubes-to-study-human-gene-mutations-and-find-new-drug-leads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/using-bacteria-as-living-test-tubes-to-study-human-gene-mutations-and-find-new-drug-leads","title":{"rendered":"Using Bacteria as Living Test Tubes to Study Human Gene Mutations and Find New Drug Leads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/using-bacteria-as-living-test-tubes-to-study-human-gene-mutations-and-find-new-drug-leads2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Traditional biochemical methods of studying human gene mutations are often laborious and costly. Now bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new simple approach to rapidly check on human gene changes and also screen chemicals as potential drugs by turning everyday bacteria into living test tubes.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers published their new study in the April 30 issue of <em>Nature Biomedical Engineering<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Human cells carry thousands of genes, and tiny changes in these genes can cause serious diseases. Usually, scientists study these changes by testing proteins in a test tube or in human cells. But those methods can be slow, expensive and sometimes hard to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional biochemical methods of studying human gene mutations are often laborious and costly. Now bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new simple approach to rapidly check on human gene changes and also screen chemicals as potential drugs by turning everyday bacteria into living test tubes. The researchers published their new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,19,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212930","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=212930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}