{"id":57321,"date":"2017-05-12T12:02:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T19:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/these-cells-are-engineered-to-be-controlled-by-a-smartphone"},"modified":"2017-05-12T12:02:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T19:02:29","slug":"these-cells-are-engineered-to-be-controlled-by-a-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/these-cells-are-engineered-to-be-controlled-by-a-smartphone","title":{"rendered":"These Cells Are Engineered to Be Controlled by a Smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-cells-are-engineered-to-be-controlled-by-a-smartphone.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwyo.edu\/molecbio\/faculty-and-staff\/mark-gomelsky\/\">Dr. Mark Gomelsky<\/a>, a professor at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwyo.edu\/\">University of Wyoming<\/a>, genetically engineered therapeutic cells are like troops on a mission.<\/p>\n<p>The first act is training. Using genetic editing tools such as <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/search\/?q=crispr\">CRISPR<\/a>, scientists can \u201ctrain\u201d a patient\u2019s own cells to specifically recognize and attack a variety of enemies, including rogue tumor soldiers and HIV terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Then comes the incursion. Engineered cells are surgically implanted to the target site, where they\u2019re left to immediately carry out the mission. The problem, <a href=\"http:\/\/stm.sciencemag.org\/content\/9\/387\/eaan3936\">says<\/a> Gomelsky, is adding a command center \u201cthat could coordinate their activities in real time according to the developing situation,\u201d such as telling cells when to activate and when to stop.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/05\/11\/these-cells-are-engineered-to-be-controlled-by-a-smartphone\/?utm_content=buffer7e50f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook-hub&utm_campaign=buffer\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/05\/11\/these-cells-are-engine...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Dr. Mark Gomelsky, a professor at the University of Wyoming, genetically engineered therapeutic cells are like troops on a mission. The first act is training. Using genetic editing tools such as CRISPR, scientists can \u201ctrain\u201d a patient\u2019s own cells to specifically recognize and attack a variety of enemies, including rogue tumor soldiers and HIV [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412,2414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57321","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}