New Archiving Technique Reveals Past Gene Activity in Cells

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An artificial cell memory stores gene activities within the cells. The new method could help to investigate persistent cancer cells after a therapy and better understand cancer relapses.

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Information about what the cell was doing hours or days ago is generally unavailable to researchers, who can only measure the current state of the cell.

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What a cell did a few hours or days ago is usually hidden from researchers. They can only measure their current state. This is a problem if they want to understand how immune reactions arise or why individual cancer cells survive a therapy. Particularly revealing is the fact that the...

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Which genes a cell had activated hours or days ago can no longer be seen because its RNA decays rapidly. A newly developed archive in the cell interior intercepts these transcripts and preserves traces of temporary reactions over several days. The technique was first tested on human cells in the laboratory. Basel (Switzerland). That a cell on [...] The article Artificial "cell archive" shows what cells did days ago appeared first on scanxx