{"id":184852,"date":"2024-03-10T14:25:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T19:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/new-study-reveals-how-genes-and-food-availability-shape-brain-development-in-the-womb"},"modified":"2024-03-10T14:25:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T19:25:51","slug":"new-study-reveals-how-genes-and-food-availability-shape-brain-development-in-the-womb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/new-study-reveals-how-genes-and-food-availability-shape-brain-development-in-the-womb","title":{"rendered":"New study reveals how genes and food availability shape brain development in the womb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-study-reveals-how-genes-and-food-availability-shape-brain-development-in-the-womb.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A groundbreaking study published in Nature Communications reveals how maternal and fetal genes, influenced by food availability, play a crucial role in the growth of a baby\u2019s cerebral cortex, linking higher birth weight to an enlarged brain area. This research highlights the significant impact of genetics and environment on early brain development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A groundbreaking study published in Nature Communications reveals how maternal and fetal genes, influenced by food availability, play a crucial role in the growth of a baby\u2019s cerebral cortex, linking higher birth weight to an enlarged brain area. This research highlights the significant impact of genetics and environment on early brain development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184852","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}