{"id":88365,"date":"2019-03-04T01:42:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T09:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/new-techniques-let-scientists-zero-in-on-individual-cells"},"modified":"2019-03-04T01:42:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T09:42:44","slug":"new-techniques-let-scientists-zero-in-on-individual-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/new-techniques-let-scientists-zero-in-on-individual-cells","title":{"rendered":"New techniques let scientists zero in on individual cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-techniques-let-scientists-zero-in-on-individual-cells2.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Did you hear what happened when Bill Gates walked into a bar? Everybody there immediately became millionaires \u2014 on average.<\/p>\n<p>That joke about a very rich man is an old one among statisticians. So why did Peter Smibert use it to explain a revolution in biology?<\/p>\n<p>Because it shows averages can be misleading. And Smibert, of the New York Genome Center, says that includes when scientists are trying to understand the basic unit of life, the cell.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/156c875fa483436b92c3cf56a29aa93c\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/156c875fa483436b92c3cf56a29aa93c<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Did you hear what happened when Bill Gates walked into a bar? Everybody there immediately became millionaires \u2014 on average. That joke about a very rich man is an old one among statisticians. So why did Peter Smibert use it to explain a revolution in biology? Because it shows averages can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88365","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}