{"id":120618,"date":"2021-03-16T18:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T01:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/crucial-step-in-formation-of-deadly-brain-diseases-discovered"},"modified":"2021-03-16T18:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T01:22:17","slug":"crucial-step-in-formation-of-deadly-brain-diseases-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/crucial-step-in-formation-of-deadly-brain-diseases-discovered","title":{"rendered":"Crucial Step in Formation of Deadly Brain Diseases Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crucial-step-in-formation-of-deadly-brain-diseases-discovered2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: Study sheds light on what causes normal proteins to convert to a diseased form associated with CJD and Kuru.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Imperial College London.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, researchers have pinpointed what causes normal proteins to convert to a diseased form, causing conditions like CJD and Kuru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Study sheds light on what causes normal proteins to convert to a diseased form associated with CJD and Kuru. Source: Imperial College London. For the first time, researchers have pinpointed what causes normal proteins to convert to a diseased form, causing conditions like CJD and Kuru.<\/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-120618","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\/120618","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=120618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}