{"id":233614,"date":"2026-03-19T03:20:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/scientists-just-built-atom-sized-gates-that-act-like-living-cells"},"modified":"2026-03-19T03:20:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:20:39","slug":"scientists-just-built-atom-sized-gates-that-act-like-living-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/scientists-just-built-atom-sized-gates-that-act-like-living-cells","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just Built Atom-Sized Gates That Act Like Living Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-built-atom-sized-gates-that-act-like-living-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have built atom-sized pores that act like living ion channels, opening the door to next-generation nanotech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have built atom-sized pores that act like living ion channels, opening the door to next-generation nanotech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233614","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=233614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}