{"id":110005,"date":"2020-07-15T18:42:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T01:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/geneticists-sequence-the-complete-human-x-chromosome-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2020-07-15T18:42:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T01:42:18","slug":"geneticists-sequence-the-complete-human-x-chromosome-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/geneticists-sequence-the-complete-human-x-chromosome-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Geneticists sequence the complete human X chromosome for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/geneticists-sequence-the-complete-human-x-chromosome-for-the-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, scientists have determined the complete sequence of a human chromosome, namely the X chromosome, from \u2018telomere to telomere\u2019. This is truly a complete sequencing of a human chromosome, with no gaps in the base pair read and at an unprecedented level of accuracy.<\/p>\n<p><b>A step closer towards the complete blueprint of a human being<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Human Genome Project was a 13-year-long, publicly funded project initiated in 1990 with the objective of determining the DNA sequence of the entire human genome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, scientists have determined the complete sequence of a human chromosome, namely the X chromosome, from \u2018telomere to telomere\u2019. This is truly a complete sequencing of a human chromosome, with no gaps in the base pair read and at an unprecedented level of accuracy. A step closer towards the complete blueprint of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110005","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\/110005","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=110005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}