{"id":187630,"date":"2024-04-18T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/novel-schizophrenia-insights-from-brain-organoids-and-genes"},"modified":"2024-04-18T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T19:34:00","slug":"novel-schizophrenia-insights-from-brain-organoids-and-genes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/novel-schizophrenia-insights-from-brain-organoids-and-genes","title":{"rendered":"Novel Schizophrenia Insights from Brain Organoids and Genes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/novel-schizophrenia-insights-from-brain-organoids-and-genes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although schizophrenia can be a very complex illness some new studies show that some major genetic factors could be the cause and then cured much easier through gene therapy.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Summary: <\/strong>Researchers leveraged cutting-edge technology to gain insights into schizophrenia\u2019s neurodevelopmental origins. The researchers grew brain organoids from patients\u2019 skin cells, finding persistent axonal disruptions in those with schizophrenia.<\/p>\n<p>In another study, researchers zeroed in on a schizophrenia risk gene, CYFIP1, revealing its potential role in brain immune cells called microglia and their influence on synaptic pruning \u2013 a crucial process for brain health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although schizophrenia can be a very complex illness some new studies show that some major genetic factors could be the cause and then cured much easier through gene therapy. Summary: Researchers leveraged cutting-edge technology to gain insights into schizophrenia\u2019s neurodevelopmental origins. The researchers grew brain organoids from patients\u2019 skin cells, finding persistent axonal disruptions in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187630","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}