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IISc Scientists Achieve Breakthrough in Controlling Human Cell Division with Blue Light

IISc Scientists Achieve Breakthrough in Controlling Human Cell Division with Blue Light
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A research team at IISc Bengaluru, comprising scientists Vignesh Olakkal, Madhumitha Balakrishnan, and Sachin Kotak, has successfully controlled human cell division using only blue light. This achievement, hailed as a major breakthrough in synthetic biology, involved developing a new technology to remotely control the microscopic machinery of cell division. The scientists named this new technique 'LISA' (Light-Induced Spindle Assembly).

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