{"id":117252,"date":"2020-12-17T11:22:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T19:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/the-dna-regions-in-our-brain-that-contribute-to-make-us-human"},"modified":"2020-12-17T11:22:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T19:22:42","slug":"the-dna-regions-in-our-brain-that-contribute-to-make-us-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/the-dna-regions-in-our-brain-that-contribute-to-make-us-human","title":{"rendered":"The DNA Regions in Our Brain That Contribute to Make Us Human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-dna-regions-in-our-brain-that-contribute-to-make-us-human.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: A new method identified a large set of gene regulatory regions in the brain, selected throughout human evolution.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.<\/p>\n<p>With only 1% difference, the human and chimpanzee protein-coding genomes are remarkably similar. Understanding the biological features that make us human is part of a fascinating and intensely debated line of research. Researchers at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the University of Lausanne have developed a new approach to pinpoint, for the first time, adaptive human-specific changes in the way genes are regulated in the brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: A new method identified a large set of gene regulatory regions in the brain, selected throughout human evolution. Source: Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. With only 1% difference, the human and chimpanzee protein-coding genomes are remarkably similar. Understanding the biological features that make us human is part of a fascinating and intensely debated line 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":[11,385,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117252","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=117252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}