{"id":195112,"date":"2024-08-24T11:22:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T16:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/scientists-discover-spatial-grammar-in-dna-breakthrough-could-rewrite-genetics-textbooks"},"modified":"2024-08-24T11:22:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T16:22:55","slug":"scientists-discover-spatial-grammar-in-dna-breakthrough-could-rewrite-genetics-textbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/scientists-discover-spatial-grammar-in-dna-breakthrough-could-rewrite-genetics-textbooks","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover \u201cSpatial Grammar\u201d in DNA: Breakthrough Could Rewrite Genetics Textbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-spatial-grammar-in-dna-breakthrough-could-rewrite-genetics-textbooks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Researchers have discovered a \u201cspatial grammar\u201d in DNA that redefines the role of transcription factors in gene regulation, influencing our understanding of genetic variations and disease.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A recently uncovered code within DNA, referred to as \u201cspatial grammar,\u201d may unlock the secret to how gene activity is encoded in the human genome.<\/p>\n<p>This breakthrough finding, identified by researchers at <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/washington-state-university\/\">Washington State University<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/ucsd\/\">University of California, San Diego<\/a> and published in <em><i>Nature<\/i><\/em>, revealed a long-postulated hidden spatial grammar embedded in DNA. The research could reshape scientists\u2019 understanding of gene regulation and how genetic variations may influence gene expression in development or disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered a \u201cspatial grammar\u201d in DNA that redefines the role of transcription factors in gene regulation, influencing our understanding of genetic variations and disease. A recently uncovered code within DNA, referred to as \u201cspatial grammar,\u201d may unlock the secret to how gene activity is encoded in the human genome. This breakthrough finding, identified [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195112","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=195112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}