{"id":164734,"date":"2023-05-29T00:23:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T05:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/the-dna-of-decision-making"},"modified":"2023-05-29T00:23:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T05:23:08","slug":"the-dna-of-decision-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/the-dna-of-decision-making","title":{"rendered":"The DNA of Decision-Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-dna-of-decision-making2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary: <\/strong>A novel study uncovers a peculiar pattern of decision-making in mice, influenced by a specific gene named Arc.<\/p>\n<p>While searching for food, mice repeatedly visited an empty location instead of staying at a site abundant in food. However, mice lacking the Arc gene demonstrated a more practical approach, sticking with the food-rich site, thereby consuming more calories overall.<\/p>\n<p>This unique research potentially opens the door for a new field, \u2018decision genetics\u2019, investigating the genetic influence on decision-making, possibly even in humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: A novel study uncovers a peculiar pattern of decision-making in mice, influenced by a specific gene named Arc. While searching for food, mice repeatedly visited an empty location instead of staying at a site abundant in food. However, mice lacking the Arc gene demonstrated a more practical approach, sticking with the food-rich site, thereby [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164734","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}