{"id":198079,"date":"2024-10-21T16:25:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T21:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/scientists-unravel-key-to-the-centromeres-eternal-life-solving-decades-old-mystery"},"modified":"2024-10-21T16:25:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T21:25:37","slug":"scientists-unravel-key-to-the-centromeres-eternal-life-solving-decades-old-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/scientists-unravel-key-to-the-centromeres-eternal-life-solving-decades-old-mystery","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Unravel Key to the Centromere\u2019s Eternal Life, Solving Decades-Old Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-unravel-key-to-the-centromeres-eternal-life-solving-decades-old-mystery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yay <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Researchers discovered that PLK1 triggers a process ensuring centromere preservation during cell division by activating the Mis18 complex and controlling CENP-A loading. This finding is key to understanding how cells correctly divide their genetic material, preventing diseases like cancer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have resolved a decade-long mystery about the mechanism that maintains the centromere, the crucial region responsible for ensuring accurate DNA division during cell division.<\/p>\n<p>A study revealed that a protein, known as PLK1, triggers a process that coordinates key proteins at the right place and time during cell division \u2013 ensuring each new cell has a centromere in the right location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yay face_with_colon_three Researchers discovered that PLK1 triggers a process ensuring centromere preservation during cell division by activating the Mis18 complex and controlling CENP-A loading. This finding is key to understanding how cells correctly divide their genetic material, preventing diseases like cancer. Scientists have resolved a decade-long mystery about the mechanism that maintains the centromere, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198079","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=198079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}