{"id":151835,"date":"2022-12-04T17:23:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T23:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/new-insight-into-brain-function-researchers-have-identified-a-long-sought-gene-encoded-protein"},"modified":"2022-12-04T17:23:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T23:23:20","slug":"new-insight-into-brain-function-researchers-have-identified-a-long-sought-gene-encoded-protein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/new-insight-into-brain-function-researchers-have-identified-a-long-sought-gene-encoded-protein","title":{"rendered":"New Insight Into Brain Function \u2014 Researchers Have Identified a Long-Sought Gene-Encoded Protein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-insight-into-brain-function-researchers-have-identified-a-long-sought-gene-encoded-protein2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Researchers at Oregon Health &amp; Science University have discovered a key molecule that contributes to understanding and treating neurological diseases like epilepsy and autism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/oregon-health-science-university\/>Oregon Health &amp; Science University<\/a> have discovered a long-sought gene-encoded protein that allows the brain to communicate a number of signals across synapses, or gaps between neurons.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery was recently published in the journal <em>Nature<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Oregon Health &amp; Science University have discovered a key molecule that contributes to understanding and treating neurological diseases like epilepsy and autism. Researchers at Oregon Health &amp; Science University have discovered a long-sought gene-encoded protein that allows the brain to communicate a number of signals across synapses, or gaps between neurons. The discovery [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151835","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\/151835","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}