{"id":155031,"date":"2023-01-10T00:23:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T06:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/fruit-flies-help-researchers-decode-genetic-link-to-alzheimers-disease"},"modified":"2023-01-10T00:23:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T06:23:58","slug":"fruit-flies-help-researchers-decode-genetic-link-to-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/fruit-flies-help-researchers-decode-genetic-link-to-alzheimers-disease","title":{"rendered":"Fruit flies help researchers decode genetic link to Alzheimer\u2019s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fruit-flies-help-researchers-decode-genetic-link-to-alzheimers-disease2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have used fruit flies to decipher an unexplained connection between Alzheimer\u2019s disease and a genetic variation, revealing that it causes neurons to die.<\/p>\n<p>The findings from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI)-led team uncover a possible cause of neurodegeneration in the early stages of Alzheimer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/disease\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">disease<\/a> and open the door for the future development of new treatments for cognitive diseases.<\/p>\n<p>The study, \u201cAn increase in mitochondrial TOM activates apoptosis to drive retinal neurodegeneration,\u201d with collaborators from Australian National University, is published in Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have used fruit flies to decipher an unexplained connection between Alzheimer\u2019s disease and a genetic variation, revealing that it causes neurons to die. The findings from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI)-led team uncover a possible cause of neurodegeneration in the early stages of Alzheimer\u2019s disease and open the door for the future [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155031","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\/155031","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}