{"id":101237,"date":"2020-01-22T19:03:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T03:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/surprise-discovery-shakes-up-our-understanding-of-gene-expression"},"modified":"2020-01-22T19:03:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T03:03:46","slug":"surprise-discovery-shakes-up-our-understanding-of-gene-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/surprise-discovery-shakes-up-our-understanding-of-gene-expression","title":{"rendered":"Surprise discovery shakes up our understanding of gene expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/surprise-discovery-shakes-up-our-understanding-of-gene-expression3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A group of University of Chicago scientists has uncovered a previously unknown way that our genes are made into reality.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than directions going one-way from DNA to RNA to proteins, the latest study shows that RNA itself modulates how DNA is transcribed\u2014using a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+process\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical process<\/a> that is increasingly apparent to be vital to biology. The discovery has significant implications for our understanding of human disease and drug design.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt appears to be a fundamental pathway we didn\u2019t know about. Anytime that happens, it holds promise to open up completely new directions of research and inquiry,\u201d said Prof. Chuan He, a world-renowned chemist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of University of Chicago scientists has uncovered a previously unknown way that our genes are made into reality. Rather than directions going one-way from DNA to RNA to proteins, the latest study shows that RNA itself modulates how DNA is transcribed\u2014using a chemical process that is increasingly apparent to be vital to biology. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}