{"id":229900,"date":"2026-01-27T04:08:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-protein-tape-recorder-enables-scientists-to-measure-and-decode-cellular-processes-at-scale-and-over-time"},"modified":"2026-01-27T04:08:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:08:57","slug":"a-protein-tape-recorder-enables-scientists-to-measure-and-decode-cellular-processes-at-scale-and-over-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-protein-tape-recorder-enables-scientists-to-measure-and-decode-cellular-processes-at-scale-and-over-time","title":{"rendered":"A protein \u2018tape recorder\u2019 enables scientists to measure and decode cellular processes at scale and over time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-protein-tape-recorder-enables-scientists-to-measure-and-decode-cellular-processes-at-scale-and-over-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unraveling the mysteries of how biological organisms function begins with understanding the molecular interactions within and across large cell populations. A revolutionary new tool, developed at the University of Michigan, acts as a sort of tape recorder produced and maintained by the cell itself, enabling scientists to rewind back in time and view interactions on a large scale and over long periods of time.<\/p>\n<p>Developed in the lab of Changyang Linghu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Biomedical Engineering and Principal Investigator in Michigan Neuroscience Institute, the so-called CytoTape is a flexible, thread-like intracellular protein fiber, designed with the help of AI to act as a tape recorder for large-scale measurement of cellular activities.<\/p>\n<p>The research <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-026-10156-9\" target=\"_blank\">appears<\/a> in the journal Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unraveling the mysteries of how biological organisms function begins with understanding the molecular interactions within and across large cell populations. A revolutionary new tool, developed at the University of Michigan, acts as a sort of tape recorder produced and maintained by the cell itself, enabling scientists to rewind back in time and view interactions on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229900","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=229900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}