{"id":16714,"date":"2015-08-28T01:46:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T08:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/gene-that-controls-the-internal-clock-discovered"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:24:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:24:44","slug":"gene-that-controls-the-internal-clock-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/gene-that-controls-the-internal-clock-discovered","title":{"rendered":"Gene That Controls the Internal Clock Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gene-that-controls-the-internal-clock-discovered2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chronobiology.com\/about-chronobiology\/#CircadianRhythm\" target=\"_blank\">circadian rhythm<\/a> is a subject of many studies, yet it remains a mystery in many ways. While scientists have identified many of the cell proteins involved in circadian rhythm and several genes that contribute to a healthy rhythm, the \u2018master clock\u2019 gene remained elusive. However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/297594.php?tw\" target=\"_blank\">a recent chronobiology study on rats<\/a> indicates that the Zfhx3, or Zinc Finger Homeobox 3, gene may be the master gene that dictates this important biological rhythm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chronobiology.com\/gene-that-controls-the-internal-clock-discovered\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The circadian rhythm is a subject of many studies, yet it remains a mystery in many ways. While scientists have identified many of the cell proteins involved in circadian rhythm and several genes that contribute to a healthy rhythm, the \u2018master clock\u2019 gene remained elusive. However, a recent chronobiology study on rats indicates that the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16714","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16714"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69663,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16714\/revisions\/69663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}