{"id":216197,"date":"2025-06-18T13:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T18:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/study-reveals-switch-like-behavior-for-hundreds-of-genes-with-links-to-human-disease"},"modified":"2025-06-18T13:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T18:10:15","slug":"study-reveals-switch-like-behavior-for-hundreds-of-genes-with-links-to-human-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/study-reveals-switch-like-behavior-for-hundreds-of-genes-with-links-to-human-disease","title":{"rendered":"Study reveals \u2018switch-like\u2019 behavior for hundreds of genes with links to human disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-reveals-switch-like-behavior-for-hundreds-of-genes-with-links-to-human-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gene expression, where cells use the genetic information encoded in DNA to produce proteins, has been thought of as a dimmer light.<\/p>\n<p>How much a particular gene gets expressed continually rises and falls, depending on the needs of a cell at any given time. It\u2019s like adjusting the lighting of a room until it\u2019s just right for your mood.<\/p>\n<p>But University at Buffalo researchers have shown that a considerable portion of a human\u2019s roughly 20,000 genes express more like your standard light switch\u2014fully on or fully off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gene expression, where cells use the genetic information encoded in DNA to produce proteins, has been thought of as a dimmer light. How much a particular gene gets expressed continually rises and falls, depending on the needs of a cell at any given time. It\u2019s like adjusting the lighting of a room until it\u2019s just [\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-216197","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\/216197","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=216197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}