{"id":221596,"date":"2025-09-09T03:52:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/scientists-track-down-mutation-that-makes-orange-cats-orange"},"modified":"2025-09-09T03:52:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:52:47","slug":"scientists-track-down-mutation-that-makes-orange-cats-orange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/scientists-track-down-mutation-that-makes-orange-cats-orange","title":{"rendered":"Scientists track down mutation that makes orange cats orange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-track-down-mutation-that-makes-orange-cats-orange.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/med.stanford.edu\/news\/media-contacts\/nina-bai.html\">Nina Bai<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It took researchers a century to find the genetic glitch that causes orange coloration in cats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nina Bai It took researchers a century to find the genetic glitch that causes orange coloration in cats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221596","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=221596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}