{"id":137597,"date":"2022-04-01T16:03:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T21:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/a-human-genome-has-finally-fully-been-decoded"},"modified":"2022-04-01T16:03:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T21:03:16","slug":"a-human-genome-has-finally-fully-been-decoded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/a-human-genome-has-finally-fully-been-decoded","title":{"rendered":"A human genome has finally, fully been decoded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-human-genome-has-finally-fully-been-decoded2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Further study of newly-sequenced portions of the genome could also help scientists better understand how humans evolved particular traits, such as the bigger brains that sent them down a genetically distinct path from their great ape ancestors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe things that make our frontal cortex bigger come from the genes that map in these repetitive regions,\u201d said Evan Eichler, a professor in the department of genome sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine and also part of the research collaborative.<\/p>\n<p>Advances in genomic sequencing technology could drive a renaissance of medical breakthroughs, the researchers say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further study of newly-sequenced portions of the genome could also help scientists better understand how humans evolved particular traits, such as the bigger brains that sent them down a genetically distinct path from their great ape ancestors. \u201cThe things that make our frontal cortex bigger come from the genes that map in these repetitive regions,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137597","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}