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    Programming Cells to Organize their Molecules may open the door to New Treatments

    February 18, 2024, Categories  Uncategorized

    Spirals of green, yellow and orange depict various proteins moving in waves in a cell on a black background.
    The Coyle Lab tested their tool in human cells by programming multiple proteins, each represented by a different color, to move in various wave patterns. The tool they developed allows researchers to essentially program molecules to move around a cell to specific locations over time. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Researchers can engineer cells to express new genes and produce specific proteins, giving the cells new parts to work with. But, it’s much harder to provide cells with instructions on how to organize and use those new parts. Now, new tools from University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers offer an innovative way around this problem.

    Their research is published in the journal Cell.

    Everything a cell does depends on how molecules are organized within the cell...

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