{"id":145002,"date":"2022-08-28T00:25:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T05:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/scientists-just-genetically-edited-a-million-years-of-evolution-into-mouse-dna"},"modified":"2022-08-28T00:25:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T05:25:24","slug":"scientists-just-genetically-edited-a-million-years-of-evolution-into-mouse-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/scientists-just-genetically-edited-a-million-years-of-evolution-into-mouse-dna","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just Genetically Edited a Million Years of Evolution Into Mouse DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-genetically-edited-a-million-years-of-evolution-into-mouse-dna3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O.o!!!!!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Changing the number of chromosomes an animal has can take millions of generations to happen in nature through the course of evolution \u2013 and now, scientists have been able to make these same changes in lab mice in a relative blink of an eye.<\/p>\n<p>The new technique using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/stem-cells\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">stem cells<\/a> and gene editing is a major accomplishment, and one that the team is hoping will reveal more about how the rearrangement of chromosomes can influence the way that animals evolve over time.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s in chromosomes \u2013 those strings of protein and DNA inside cells \u2013 that we find our genes, inherited from our parents and blended together to make us who we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O.o!!!!! Changing the number of chromosomes an animal has can take millions of generations to happen in nature through the course of evolution \u2013 and now, scientists have been able to make these same changes in lab mice in a relative blink of an eye. The new technique using stem cells and gene editing is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,385,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145002","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=145002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}