{"id":169956,"date":"2023-08-18T15:23:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T20:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/researchers-describe-a-pot-hole-that-protects-our-chromosome-ends"},"modified":"2023-08-18T15:23:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T20:23:19","slug":"researchers-describe-a-pot-hole-that-protects-our-chromosome-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/researchers-describe-a-pot-hole-that-protects-our-chromosome-ends","title":{"rendered":"Researchers describe a \u2018POT-hole\u2019 that protects our chromosome ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-describe-a-pot-hole-that-protects-our-chromosome-ends2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have determined a new feature of how the natural ends of our chromosomes are protected from harmful outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study, University of Michigan researchers looked at how the DNA damage recognition process seems to know the difference between harmful DNA breaks that need repair versus the natural ends of chromosomes, called <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/telomeres\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">telomeres<\/a>, that need to be left alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf possible, you repair it, and if you can\u2019t repair it, then the cell dies. You don\u2019t want to keep dividing with broken DNA. That\u2019s what happens in a normal cell, and that\u2019s a good thing,\u201d said Jayakrishnan Nandakumar, a professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have determined a new feature of how the natural ends of our chromosomes are protected from harmful outcomes. In a new study, University of Michigan researchers looked at how the DNA damage recognition process seems to know the difference between harmful DNA breaks that need repair versus the natural ends of chromosomes, called telomeres, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169956","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}