{"id":34077,"date":"2017-02-02T23:23:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T07:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/scientists-build-worlds-tiniest-hammer-to-bang-on-brain-cells"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:47:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:47:57","slug":"scientists-build-worlds-tiniest-hammer-to-bang-on-brain-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/scientists-build-worlds-tiniest-hammer-to-bang-on-brain-cells","title":{"rendered":"Scientists build world\u2019s tiniest hammer to bang on brain cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-build-worlds-tiniest-hammer-to-bang-on-brain-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Way cool.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Feb. 2 (UPI) \u2014 Scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara want to study the effects of various mechanical forces on individual brain cells. Until now, however, researchers didn\u2019t have the right tools.<\/p>\n<p>To study brain impacts at the nanoscale, researchers built the world\u2019s tiniest hammer \u2014 the \u03bcHammer, or \u201cmicroHammer.\u201d The \u03bcHammer is a cellular-scale machine capable of applying a variety of mechanical forces to neural progenitor cells, brain-centric stem cells. Eventually, scientists hope to use the hammer to apply forces to neurons and neural tissue.<\/p>\n<p>The hammer piggybacks on existing cell-sorting technology which isolates individual cells for diagnostics and immunotherapy. Once isolated, the machine can apply a range of forces. Post-impact structural and biomechanical analysis will allow scientists study the effects of focus in near real-time.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2017\/02\/02\/Scientists-build-worlds-tiniest-hammer-to-bang-on-brain-cells\/8341486070341\/\">http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2017\/02\/02\/Scientists-build-...486070341\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way cool. Feb. 2 (UPI) \u2014 Scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara want to study the effects of various mechanical forces on individual brain cells. Until now, however, researchers didn\u2019t have the right tools. To study brain impacts at the nanoscale, researchers built the world\u2019s tiniest hammer \u2014 the \u03bcHammer, or \u201cmicroHammer.\u201d The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34077","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=34077"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65214,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34077\/revisions\/65214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}