{"id":112209,"date":"2020-08-30T14:25:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T21:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/jumping-dna-regulates-human-neurons"},"modified":"2020-08-30T14:25:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T21:25:11","slug":"jumping-dna-regulates-human-neurons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/jumping-dna-regulates-human-neurons","title":{"rendered":"\u201cJumping\u201d DNA Regulates Human Neurons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jumping-dna-regulates-human-neurons.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: Transposable elements team up with evolutionary recent neurons to influence differentiation and physiological function of neurons in brain development.<\/p>\n<p>Source: EPFL<\/p>\n<p>The human genome contains over 4.5 million sequences of DNA called \u201ctransposable elements\u201d, these virus-like entities that \u201cjump\u201d around and help regulate gene expression. They do this by binding transcription factors, which are proteins that regulate the rate of transcription of DNA to RNA, influencing gene expression in a broad range of biological events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Transposable elements team up with evolutionary recent neurons to influence differentiation and physiological function of neurons in brain development. Source: EPFL The human genome contains over 4.5 million sequences of DNA called \u201ctransposable elements\u201d, these virus-like entities that \u201cjump\u201d around and help regulate gene expression. They do this by binding transcription factors, which are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112209","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=112209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}