{"id":239690,"date":"2026-06-26T06:34:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T11:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/can-scientists-learn-cells-led-team-aims-to-decode-cellular-conversations"},"modified":"2026-06-26T06:34:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T11:34:47","slug":"can-scientists-learn-cells-led-team-aims-to-decode-cellular-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/can-scientists-learn-cells-led-team-aims-to-decode-cellular-conversations","title":{"rendered":"Can scientists learn cells\u2019 led team aims to decode cellular conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-scientists-learn-cells-led-team-aims-to-decode-cellular-conversations.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have many different cells playing different parts,\u201d said Dr. Dino Di Carlo, the Armond and Elena Hairapetian Professor and Chair of Bioengineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. \u201cA healthy tissue emerges when those parts are coordinated \u2014 when cells listen and respond to one another in the right way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But when those signals are misheard or go out of sync, the results can be devastating. In fibrosis, a misfiring message drives cells into a scar-producing overdrive, stiffening lungs, hearts and kidneys. In cancer, tumor cells can distort the score, sending molecular signals that suppress or misdirect immune attack. What sounds like harmony in health can become discord in disease.<\/p>\n<p>Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41587-026-03177-2__;!!F9wkZZsI-LA!B3Linx6lhEKHIoLU9RhHQmqLX6TevyLViECj6cbuMYJUe9WBQQLFH-ReND2TQyzIpy3kFDl6kp-XTwzRsYIwgMlm$\" target=\"_blank\">in a perspective<\/a> published in Nature Biotechnology, Di Carlo and colleagues from UCLA, USC and Caltech are calling on the scientific community to join the Billion Cell\u00d7Cell Project \u2014 an effort to understand the cellular symphony one duet at a time, by systematically mapping how individual pairs of cells influence one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou have many different cells playing different parts,\u201d said Dr. Dino Di Carlo, the Armond and Elena Hairapetian Professor and Chair of Bioengineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. \u201cA healthy tissue emerges when those parts are coordinated \u2014 when cells listen and respond to one another in the right way.\u201d But when those [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239690","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=239690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}