{"id":32528,"date":"2016-12-10T12:34:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T20:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/counting-cells"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:59:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:59:05","slug":"counting-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/counting-cells","title":{"rendered":"Counting Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/counting-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists from MIT and Boston University have developed biological cells that can count and \u2018remember\u2019 cellular events by creating simple circuits through a series of genes that are activated in a precise order. These circuits, which the scientists say simulate computer chips, could be employed to tally the number of times a cell divides or to track a cycle of developmental stages. Such counting cells could also be used as biosensors to count the number of toxin exposures present in an environment.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/thefutureofthings.com\/4048-counting-cells\/\">http:\/\/thefutureofthings.com\/4048-counting-cells\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from MIT and Boston University have developed biological cells that can count and \u2018remember\u2019 cellular events by creating simple circuits through a series of genes that are activated in a precise order. These circuits, which the scientists say simulate computer chips, could be employed to tally the number of times a cell divides or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32528","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65618,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32528\/revisions\/65618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}