{"id":223844,"date":"2025-10-23T16:05:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/behind-the-science-how-a-speech-gene-could-help-treat-huntingtons"},"modified":"2025-10-23T16:05:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:05:02","slug":"behind-the-science-how-a-speech-gene-could-help-treat-huntingtons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/behind-the-science-how-a-speech-gene-could-help-treat-huntingtons","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Science: How a \u2018speech gene\u2019 could help treat Huntington\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/behind-the-science-how-a-speech-gene-could-help-treat-huntingtons.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/med.stanford.edu\/news\/media-contacts\/sarah_c_p_williams.html\">Sarah Williams<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stanford Medicine researchers found cells that keep a speech-linked protein called FOXP2 from clumping; its tricks could break apart clumps of proteins that cause devastating brain diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sarah Williams Stanford Medicine researchers found cells that keep a speech-linked protein called FOXP2 from clumping; its tricks could break apart clumps of proteins that cause devastating brain diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223844","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=223844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}