{"id":101865,"date":"2020-02-04T10:04:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T18:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/refining-the-allotopic-expression-of-mitochondrial-genes"},"modified":"2020-02-04T10:04:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T18:04:32","slug":"refining-the-allotopic-expression-of-mitochondrial-genes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/refining-the-allotopic-expression-of-mitochondrial-genes","title":{"rendered":"Refining the Allotopic Expression of Mitochondrial Genes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/refining-the-allotopic-expression-of-mitochondrial-genes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sens.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SENS Research Foundation<\/a>, including Matthew O\u2019Connor and Amutha Boominathan, have published a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2213231719310638\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> showing how codons play an important role in getting copies of mitochondrial genes placed in the cellular nucleus to express themselves correctly [1].<\/p>\n<p><strong>A possible solution to mitochondrial diseases<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mitochondrial disease is not a single disease; in fact, it is a group of rare and related conditions that are thought to affect perhaps 1 in 5000 people. These are caused due to mutations in the genes involved in the process of aerobic respiration, one of the main functions of our mitochondria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from SENS Research Foundation, including Matthew O\u2019Connor and Amutha Boominathan, have published a new study showing how codons play an important role in getting copies of mitochondrial genes placed in the cellular nucleus to express themselves correctly [1]. A possible solution to mitochondrial diseases Mitochondrial disease is not a single disease; in fact, it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101865","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}