{"id":121,"date":"2001-11-09T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2001-11-10T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=121"},"modified":"2007-12-30T15:09:16","modified_gmt":"2007-12-30T23:09:16","slug":"pointing-the-way-for-micro-tubules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Pointing the way for micro-tubules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/nano-circles.jpg\" alt=\"Nano circles\" align=\"left\" \/>As reported in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/20011027\/note13ref.asp\">27 Oct 2001<\/a> issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/\">Science News<\/a>, Japanese researchers have found a way to control movement of microtubules. They wanted to get the tubules to move around a circular track in one direction, but the tubules would move randomly. Their solution? Simply <a href=\"http:\/\/unit.aist.go.jp\/genediscry\/motility\/biophysj\/moviedl.html\">point the way<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More precisely, etch arrowheads into the circular track, and the tubules will move in that direction only. A good example showing that building micro-machines requires a different way of thinking compared to building macro-machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported in the 27 Oct 2001 issue of Science News, Japanese researchers have found a way to control movement of microtubules. They wanted to get the tubules to move around a circular track in one direction, but the tubules would move randomly. Their solution? <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=121\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}