{"id":1642,"date":"2025-07-10T20:02:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T20:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2025-07-10T20:02:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T20:02:03","slug":"cells-can-hear-sound-influences-biological-processes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/?p=1642","title":{"rendered":"Cells Can Hear: Sound Influences Biological Processes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cells-Can-Hear_-Sound-Influences-Biological-Processes.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PODCAST: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/research-news\/2025-04-17\">groundbreaking research from Kyoto University<\/a> demonstrating that <strong>human cells can directly perceive and react to sound<\/strong>, challenging the long-held belief that sound perception is solely mediated by the brain and auditory organs. Researchers devised a system to expose cultured cells to acoustic waves, observing significant <strong>cellular responses<\/strong>, including the <strong>suppression of adipocyte differentiation<\/strong>, which is the process of fat cell formation. Furthermore, the study identified approximately <strong>190 sound-sensitive genes<\/strong>, highlighting the profound influence sound can have at a cellular level. These findings suggest potential <strong>non-invasive applications in medicine and healthcare<\/strong>, offering new avenues for <a href=\"https:\/\/notebooklm.google.com\/notebook\/f1dc419e-a25f-4cd4-854f-5b2a70347be1\">controlling cell and tissue states through acoustic stimulation.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PODCAST: groundbreaking research from Kyoto University demonstrating that human cells can directly perceive and react to sound, challenging the long-held belief that sound perception is solely mediated by the brain and auditory organs. Researchers devised a system to expose cultured cells to acoustic waves, observing significant cellular responses, including the suppression of adipocyte differentiation, which&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/?p=1642\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cells Can Hear: Sound Influences Biological Processes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","category-the-truben-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1646,"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions\/1646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/172-234-197-23.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}