{"id":697,"date":"2009-10-30T16:50:16","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T21:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/?p=697"},"modified":"2009-10-30T16:50:16","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T21:50:16","slug":"dissecting-the-nanoworld-the-atomic-force-microscope-nanoscalpel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/10\/30\/dissecting-the-nanoworld-the-atomic-force-microscope-nanoscalpel\/","title":{"rendered":"Dissecting the nanoworld: The atomic force microscope nanoscalpel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>All the Cut &amp; Paste actions were completed using the free <a title=\"Ditto Clipboard Manager\" href=\"http:\/\/ditto-cp.sourceforge.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ditto<\/a> &#8211; an easily installed and removed program..<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(<em>Nanowerk Spotlight \u00e2\u20ac\u201c by J.D. Beard<\/em>) Traditional techniques in cell biology involve chemical or pharmaceutical treatments of entire cells; however, in many cases it would be advantageous to target a single <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Organelle\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Organelle\">organelle<\/a> or other structure within a cell without damaging overall cell structure. If scientists could inject a drug into a chosen organelle within the cell, or even destroy, extract or isolate the whole organelle without significantly harming the cell itself, new insight could be gained into the inner workings of the cell. In recent years, techniques have been developed which allow the manipulation of the individual <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Nanoscopic scale\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nanoscopic_scale\">nanoscale<\/a> structures within biological cells.<\/p>\n<p>The complete article can be viewed at the <a href=\"http:\/\/ditto-cp.sourceforge.net\/\">Nanowerk site<\/a>.\u00a0 They have some really good <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Nanotechnology\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nanotechnology\">nano technology<\/a> articles.\u00a0 Most of them boggle my mind &amp; challenge it too.\u00a0 If I could do it over, I think this is an area I would enjoy working within.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/db564111-163b-4540-9080-3fbdfc200524\/\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=db564111-163b-4540-9080-3fbdfc200524\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-img zemanta-action-dragged\" style=\"margin: 1em; display: block;\">\n<div>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Biological_cell.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Diagram of a typical animal cell.\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/1a\/Biological_cell.svg\/300px-Biological_cell.svg.png\" alt=\"Diagram of a typical animal cell.\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Biological_cell.svg\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the Cut &amp; Paste actions were completed using the free Ditto &#8211; an easily installed and removed program.. 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Beard) Traditional techniques in cell biology involve chemical or pharmaceutical treatments of entire cells; however, in many cases it would be advantageous to target a single organelle or other structure within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}