{"id":202677,"date":"2024-12-28T23:24:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T05:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/why-evolution-erased-dads-mitochondria"},"modified":"2024-12-28T23:24:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T05:24:38","slug":"why-evolution-erased-dads-mitochondria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/why-evolution-erased-dads-mitochondria","title":{"rendered":"Why Evolution Erased Dad\u2019s Mitochondria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-evolution-erased-dads-mitochondria.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we countdown the days until the New Year, we are revisiting our top stories of 2024! For today, a study may have uncovered why we get our energy from our mothers.<\/p>\n<p>Read our coverage.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>But what happens when this process fails?<\/p>\n<p><b><b> Delaying PME results in impaired physiological function <\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Xue and the team studied PME in <i>Caenorhabditis elegans (<i>C. elegans<\/i>)<\/i>, a translucent roundworm, to gain insight into this elusive mechanism. <i>C. elegans<\/i> only have 1,000 cells, yet they still develop a nervous system, gut, muscles and other tissues like humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we countdown the days until the New Year, we are revisiting our top stories of 2024! For today, a study may have uncovered why we get our energy from our mothers. Read our coverage. But what happens when this process fails? Delaying PME results in impaired physiological function Xue and the team studied PME [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202677","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}