{"id":234682,"date":"2026-04-06T10:26:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/designed-to-remember"},"modified":"2026-04-06T10:26:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:26:55","slug":"designed-to-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/designed-to-remember","title":{"rendered":"Designed to remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/designed-to-remember.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a new <i>Science<\/i> study, researchers report that specific regions dense in cytosine and guanosine dinucleotides are epigenetically modified during inflammation to enable gene expression and that these changes persist during the animal\u2019s lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>The finding has implications for understanding how the genome determines the longevity of memory, which affects tissue fitness.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more in a new <i>Science<\/i> Perspective.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Specific DNA sequence features encode the persistence of epigenetic memory of inflammation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aeg3891#con1\"> Guillaume Blot<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aeg3891#con2\"> Przemyslaw Sapieha<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aeg3891#tab-contributors\">Authors Info &amp; Affiliations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Science<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/designed-to-remember\">Continue reading \u201cDesigned to remember\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new Science study, researchers report that specific regions dense in cytosine and guanosine dinucleotides are epigenetically modified during inflammation to enable gene expression and that these changes persist during the animal\u2019s lifetime. The finding has implications for understanding how the genome determines the longevity of memory, which affects tissue fitness. Learn more in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234682","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\/234682","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=234682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}