{"id":110094,"date":"2020-07-17T09:43:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T16:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/sperm-discovery-reveals-clue-to-genetic-immortality"},"modified":"2020-07-17T09:43:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T16:43:18","slug":"sperm-discovery-reveals-clue-to-genetic-immortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/sperm-discovery-reveals-clue-to-genetic-immortality","title":{"rendered":"Sperm discovery reveals clue to genetic \u2018immortality\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sperm-discovery-reveals-clue-to-genetic-immortality.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New insights into an elusive process that protects developing sperm cells from damage in growing embryos, sheds light on how genetic information passes down, uninterrupted, through generations.<\/p>\n<p>The study identified a protein, known as SPOCD1, which plays a key role in protecting the early-stage precursors to sperm, known as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/germ+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">germ cells<\/a>, from damage in a developing embryo.<\/p>\n<p>During their development, germ cells undergo a reprogramming process that leaves them vulnerable to rogue genes, known as jumping genes, which can damage their DNA and lead to infertility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New insights into an elusive process that protects developing sperm cells from damage in growing embryos, sheds light on how genetic information passes down, uninterrupted, through generations. The study identified a protein, known as SPOCD1, which plays a key role in protecting the early-stage precursors to sperm, known as germ cells, from damage in a [\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-110094","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\/110094","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=110094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}