{"id":239586,"date":"2026-06-25T02:22:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/artificial-dna-tiles-could-deliver-drugs-and-monitor-neurons-non-disruptively"},"modified":"2026-06-25T02:22:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:22:54","slug":"artificial-dna-tiles-could-deliver-drugs-and-monitor-neurons-non-disruptively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/artificial-dna-tiles-could-deliver-drugs-and-monitor-neurons-non-disruptively","title":{"rendered":"Artificial DNA tiles could deliver drugs and monitor neurons non-disruptively"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-dna-tiles-could-deliver-drugs-and-monitor-neurons-non-disruptively2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Living cells constantly exchange ions (i.e., charged particles) via the thin barrier that surrounds their interior, known as the outer membrane. Neuroscientists and medical researchers have long been trying to devise effective methods to measure this exchange of ions, which is known to be associated with communication between neurons and various other crucial physiological processes.<\/p>\n<p>While techniques developed so far work relatively well, they rely on inserting tiny pipettes or electrodes into cells. These tools inevitably pierce the cells\u2019 outer membranes, damaging cells and disrupting the intracellular milieu and machinery.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Purdue University and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign recently nanoengineered new biohybrid devices based on artificial DNA that could be used to track electrical signals sent or received by cells without breaking through the membrane and disrupting their functions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living cells constantly exchange ions (i.e., charged particles) via the thin barrier that surrounds their interior, known as the outer membrane. Neuroscientists and medical researchers have long been trying to devise effective methods to measure this exchange of ions, which is known to be associated with communication between neurons and various other crucial physiological processes. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239586","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=239586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}