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Inside Back Cover: “Molecular Activity Painting”: Switch‐like, Light‐Controlled Perturbations inside Living Cells (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 21/2017)
Author(s) -
Chen Xi,
Venkatachalapathy Muthukumaran,
Kamps Dominic,
Weigel Simone,
Kumar Ravi,
Orlich Michael,
Garrecht Ruben,
Hirtz Michael,
Niemeyer Christof M.,
Wu YaoWen,
Dehmelt Leif
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201703450
Subject(s) - painting , eternity , symbol (formal) , cover (algebra) , art history , living cell , art , bit (key) , cell function , visual arts , computer science , chemistry , philosophy , cell , biology , engineering , literature , microbiology and biotechnology , linguistics , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , computer security
People all around the world carve their initials into trees as a symbol of eternal love. But those carvings are about 1 million times larger than the paintings that were made in living cells by Y.‐W. Wu, L. Dehmelt, and co‐workers in their Communication on page 5916 ff. Although these cell paintings were not made for eternity, they lasted for several hours––a very long time in the dynamic environment of a living cell. The paintings were made not just for fun, but were used to manipulate cell function to reach a better understanding of complex disease processes such as cancer metastasis.