{"id":194974,"date":"2024-08-22T19:22:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T00:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/queensland-scientists-identify-new-dna-regulation-mechanism"},"modified":"2024-08-22T19:22:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T00:22:36","slug":"queensland-scientists-identify-new-dna-regulation-mechanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/queensland-scientists-identify-new-dna-regulation-mechanism","title":{"rendered":"Queensland Scientists Identify New DNA Regulation Mechanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/queensland-scientists-identify-new-dna-regulation-mechanism.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Queensland researchers have discovered a mechanism in DNA that regulates how disease-causing mutations are inherited.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/about.uq.edu.au\/experts\/35630\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Anne Hahn<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/about.uq.edu.au\/experts\/13245\" target=\"_blank\">Associate Professor Steven Zuryn<\/a> from UQ\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/qbi.uq.edu.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Queensland Brain Institute<\/a> said the findings could provide a promising therapeutic avenue to stop the onset of heritable and age-related diseases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMitochondrial DNA is essential for cell function,\u201d Dr Hahn said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Queensland researchers have discovered a mechanism in DNA that regulates how disease-causing mutations are inherited. Dr Anne Hahn and Associate Professor Steven Zuryn from UQ\u2019s Queensland Brain Institute said the findings could provide a promising therapeutic avenue to stop the onset of heritable and age-related diseases. \u201cMitochondrial DNA is essential for cell function,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194974","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=194974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}