{"id":73468,"date":"2017-10-25T11:02:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T18:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/new-algorithm-could-let-us-reprogram-any-cell-into-any-other-cell-type"},"modified":"2017-10-25T11:02:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T18:02:31","slug":"new-algorithm-could-let-us-reprogram-any-cell-into-any-other-cell-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/new-algorithm-could-let-us-reprogram-any-cell-into-any-other-cell-type","title":{"rendered":"New Algorithm Could Let Us Reprogram Any Cell Into Any Other Cell Type"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-algorithm-could-let-us-reprogram-any-cell-into-any-other-cell-type.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the most defining scientific discoveries in recent decades is the development of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-stem-cell-treatment-using-fat-cells-could-repair-any-tissue-in-the-body\">induced pluripotent stem cells<\/a>, which lets scientists revert adult cells back into an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-developed-early-stage-human-embryonic-stem-cells-for-the-first-time\">embryonic-like blank state<\/a> and then manipulating them to become a particular kind of tissue.<\/p>\n<p>But now a new model could do away with this time-consuming process, taking out the middle step and directly programming cells to become whatever we want them to be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCells in our body always self-specialise,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/10\/171024130620.htm\">explains bioinformatics researcher Indika Rajapakse<\/a> from the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-mathematical-algorithm-reprogram-cell-type-induced-pluripotent-stem-dna\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-mathematical-algorithm-repro...t-stem-dna<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most defining scientific discoveries in recent decades is the development of induced pluripotent stem cells, which lets scientists revert adult cells back into an embryonic-like blank state and then manipulating them to become a particular kind of tissue. But now a new model could do away with this time-consuming process, taking out [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73468","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}