{"id":239498,"date":"2026-06-23T23:02:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T04:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/these-master-proteins-protect-us-from-deadly-mutations-and-could-inspire-new-drugs"},"modified":"2026-06-23T23:02:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T04:02:45","slug":"these-master-proteins-protect-us-from-deadly-mutations-and-could-inspire-new-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/these-master-proteins-protect-us-from-deadly-mutations-and-could-inspire-new-drugs","title":{"rendered":"These \u2018master\u2019 proteins protect us from deadly mutations \u2014 and could inspire new drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-master-proteins-protect-us-from-deadly-mutations-and-could-inspire-new-drugs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biology has clever ways to mask the effects of potentially harmful gene mutations. Scientists are investigating how this \u2018buffering\u2019 works \u2014 and how to exploit it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biology has clever ways to mask the effects of potentially harmful gene mutations. Scientists are investigating how this \u2018buffering\u2019 works \u2014 and how to exploit it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239498","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\/239498","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}