{"id":109673,"date":"2020-07-08T09:42:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T16:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/rna-key-in-helping-stem-cells-know-what-to-become"},"modified":"2020-07-08T09:42:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T16:42:24","slug":"rna-key-in-helping-stem-cells-know-what-to-become","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/rna-key-in-helping-stem-cells-know-what-to-become","title":{"rendered":"RNA key in helping stem cells know what to become"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rna-key-in-helping-stem-cells-know-what-to-become3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look deep inside our cells, and you\u2019ll find that each has an identical genome \u2013a complete set of genes that provides the instructions for our cells\u2019 form and function.<\/p>\n<p>But if each blueprint is identical, why does an eye cell look and act differently than a skin cell or brain cell? How does a stem cell\u2014the raw material with which our organ and tissue cells are made\u2014know what to become?<\/p>\n<p>In a study published July 8, University of Colorado Boulder researchers come one step closer to answering that fundamental question, concluding that the molecular messenger RNA (ribonucleic acid) plays an indispensable role in cell differentiation, serving as a bridge between our genes and the so-called \u201cepigenetic\u201d machinery that turns them on and off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look deep inside our cells, and you\u2019ll find that each has an identical genome \u2013a complete set of genes that provides the instructions for our cells\u2019 form and function. But if each blueprint is identical, why does an eye cell look and act differently than a skin cell or brain cell? How does a stem [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109673","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=109673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}