{"id":986,"date":"2017-08-15T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cordlifeindia.com\/blog\/?p=986"},"modified":"2025-02-11T16:53:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T11:23:16","slug":"build-live-3d-maps-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cordlifeindia.com\/blog\/build-live-3d-maps-cells\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Stem Cells To Build Live 3D Maps Of Our Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>html { scroll-behavior: smooth; scroll-padding-top: 5em; .table_of_contents {margin: 25px 0; padding: 10px; background: #F2F5F7;} .table_of_contents a { text-decoration: none; }}<\/style><div class='table_of_contents'><h3>Table of Contents<\/h3><ul><\/ul><\/div>\n<p>What if we told you that you could view transparent human cells? The Allen Institute for Cell Science researchers have invented a new data imaging technique in order to see the inside of stem cells. The images are not animation of cells, rather based on the insights derived from high quality photomicrographs with 6,000 induced pluripotent stem cells or IPS cells. All these stem cells are collected from human skin. The team fondly calls the technology as <a href=\"https:\/\/alleninstitute.org\/what-we-do\/cell-science\/\">Allen Cell Explorer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The process involved the IPS cells undergoing a gene editing, so the fluorescent markers could be attached to form 11 types of different structures. The idea was to know the inner machinery of our cell system. Followed by this, the researchers applied a deep analyzing computational method to document the entire structure of each stem cell, as viewed from the 3D maps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rick Horwitz, The executive director of the Allen Institute for Cell Science said, \u201cThis is the first time researchers have used deep learning to try and understand the elusive question of how actual cells are organized. The cartoons we rely on in textbooks, which are based on an artist\u2019s interpretation of data from a relatively small number of cells, will eventually be replaced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2017\/human-stem-cells-allen-cell-explorer\/\">data-driven models<\/a> of this kind from very large numbers of cells.\u201dMolly Maleckar, the director of modeling shared the complexity of this system, as she mentioned, \u201cWe\u2019re actually having brainstorming sessions to see what else can we do with this data.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tool will prove a path breaking discovery in the history of medical science, as predicted by the scientists, as they can now see the changes the cells go through after receiving various drugs. Susanne Rafelski, the director of assay development said, \u201cThe idea that we can build a cell, and think of the cell as a whole, and see how that cell changes as it grows, divides, differentiates or gets sick \u2013 to me, it\u2019s really a new frontier in thinking about cells and the cellular basis of disease.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, cell functions like mitochondria, microtubules and cell-to-cell junctions are the challenges that scientists wanted to address with this invention. Maleckar remarked, \u201cThere\u2019s this assumption outside the world of cell biology that people must know where everything is. \u2026 That\u2019s actually not true.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tool is often compared to the city maps that show all the highways, power plants, toll booths inside a city. Apart from the Allen Cell Explorer, there is a 3D Cell viewer that highlights 3D visualization of stem cells. There is also a cell catalog that shows all the required information about the gene-edited stem cell lines, offered by the institute. Any researcher can order the tools and the cell lines through a non-profit AddGene repository, run by the Allen Institute for Cell Science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team aims at a concrete visualization of stem cells as they are modified into different types of cells. Rafelski said, \u201cIt\u2019s astounding that we get to do this, that we get to do science and then share science as beautifully as possible\u201d, while Maleckar added, \u201cI would absolutely agree. Science altruism: It really works.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Table of Contents What if we told you that you could view transparent human cells? The Allen Institute for Cell Science researchers have invented a new data imaging technique in order to see the inside of stem cells. 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