{"id":232318,"date":"2026-03-01T01:06:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T07:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/noninvasive-monitoring-of-gene-expression-in-primate-brains"},"modified":"2026-03-01T01:06:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T07:06:02","slug":"noninvasive-monitoring-of-gene-expression-in-primate-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/noninvasive-monitoring-of-gene-expression-in-primate-brains","title":{"rendered":"Noninvasive monitoring of gene expression in primate brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/noninvasive-monitoring-of-gene-expression-in-primate-brains2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gene therapy has been successfully used to treat a number of diseases, including immune deficiencies, hereditary blindness, hemophilia and, recently, Huntington\u2019s disease, a fatal neurological disorder.<\/p>\n<p>An advance reported in the journal Neuron adds to the technique\u2019s growing track record of evidence supporting the view that it could unlock powerful, personalized therapies: researchers found that released markers of activity (RMAs) \u23af engineered proteins designed to cross the blood-brain barrier and persist in the blood for hours at a time, providing a reliable and noninvasive way to get information about gene expression in the brain \u23af work just as well in monkeys as they do in mice.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside precision, RMA technology is also capacious and adaptable: Different serum markers can be designed to track multiple genes across different brain regions. ScienceMission sciencenewshighlights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gene therapy has been successfully used to treat a number of diseases, including immune deficiencies, hereditary blindness, hemophilia and, recently, Huntington\u2019s disease, a fatal neurological disorder. An advance reported in the journal Neuron adds to the technique\u2019s growing track record of evidence supporting the view that it could unlock powerful, personalized therapies: researchers found that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232318","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=232318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}