{"id":220507,"date":"2025-08-20T11:09:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/discovery-of-second-light-activated-state-in-alga-ion-channel-could-inform-future-optogenetics"},"modified":"2025-08-20T11:09:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:09:01","slug":"discovery-of-second-light-activated-state-in-alga-ion-channel-could-inform-future-optogenetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/discovery-of-second-light-activated-state-in-alga-ion-channel-could-inform-future-optogenetics","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of second light-activated state in alga ion channel could inform future optogenetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/discovery-of-second-light-activated-state-in-alga-ion-channel-could-inform-future-optogenetics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have gained new insights into an ion channel from algae. These insights could help optogenetics realize its full potential in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have gained new insights into an ion channel from algae. These insights could help optogenetics realize its full potential in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220507","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}