{"id":147988,"date":"2022-10-11T19:23:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T00:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/scientists-blown-away"},"modified":"2022-10-11T19:23:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T00:23:54","slug":"scientists-blown-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/scientists-blown-away","title":{"rendered":"Scientists \u2018Blown Away\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-blown-away3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The brain\u2019s ability to adapt and rewire itself throughout life continues to surprise neuroscientists. Researchers have found a way to restore sight in adult mice with a form of congenital blindness, in spite of the rodents\u2019 relative maturity.<\/p>\n<p>The mice were modeling a rare human disorder of the eye\u2019s retina, called<a href=\"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/rare-diseases\/leber-congenital-amaurosis\/\"> leber congenital amaurosis<\/a> (LCA), which often causes blindness or severe visual impairment at birth.<\/p>\n<p>This inherited condition seems to be caused by a mutation in any one of dozens of genes associated with the retina and its light-sensing abilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brain\u2019s ability to adapt and rewire itself throughout life continues to surprise neuroscientists. Researchers have found a way to restore sight in adult mice with a form of congenital blindness, in spite of the rodents\u2019 relative maturity. The mice were modeling a rare human disorder of the eye\u2019s retina, called leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147988","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=147988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}