{"id":180077,"date":"2024-01-08T08:23:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T14:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/scientists-have-been-studying-your-pee-and-they-finally-have-answers"},"modified":"2024-01-08T08:23:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T14:23:20","slug":"scientists-have-been-studying-your-pee-and-they-finally-have-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/scientists-have-been-studying-your-pee-and-they-finally-have-answers","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Been Studying Your Pee and They Finally Have Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-been-studying-your-pee-and-they-finally-have-answers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Until now, scientists somehow didn\u2019t know exactly what made pee yellow.<\/p>\n<p>But that just may have finally changed. In a new study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41564-023-01549-x\" class=\"\">published in the journal <em>Nature Microbiology<\/em><\/a>, a multidisciplinary group of scientists out of the University of Maryland reported on their findings about a middleman enzyme called bilirubin reductase, which had long evaded researchers as they tried to figure out which precise compounds resulted in urine\u2019s distinct yellow hue.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health-news\/scientists-finally-figure-out-why-urine-is-yellow#How-blood-cells-turn-into-pigment\" class=\"\"><em>Healthline<\/em> reports<\/a>, scientists had known for more than 125 years that on a high level, urine gets its color from the disposal of old red blood cells as they degrade in our livers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until now, scientists somehow didn\u2019t know exactly what made pee yellow. But that just may have finally changed. In a new study published in the journal Nature Microbiology, a multidisciplinary group of scientists out of the University of Maryland reported on their findings about a middleman enzyme called bilirubin reductase, which had long evaded researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180077","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}