{"id":206109,"date":"2025-02-11T07:07:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T13:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/yale-scientists-just-cracked-the-dna-code-that-built-the-human-brain"},"modified":"2025-02-11T07:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T13:07:27","slug":"yale-scientists-just-cracked-the-dna-code-that-built-the-human-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/yale-scientists-just-cracked-the-dna-code-that-built-the-human-brain","title":{"rendered":"Yale Scientists Just Cracked the DNA Code That Built the Human Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/yale-scientists-just-cracked-the-dna-code-that-built-the-human-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Scientists explored Human Accelerated Regions (HARs), genetic regulators that tweak existing genes rather than introducing new ones. Using cutting-edge techniques, they mapped nearly all HAR interactions, revealing their role in brain development and neurological disorders like autism and schizophrenia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Decoding the Genetic Evolution of the Human Brain<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A new Yale study offers a deeper understanding of the genetic changes that shaped human brain evolution and how this process differed from that of chimpanzees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists explored Human Accelerated Regions (HARs), genetic regulators that tweak existing genes rather than introducing new ones. Using cutting-edge techniques, they mapped nearly all HAR interactions, revealing their role in brain development and neurological disorders like autism and schizophrenia. Decoding the Genetic Evolution of the Human Brain A new Yale study offers a deeper understanding [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206109","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=206109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}