{"id":240039,"date":"2026-06-30T22:11:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/tiny-genetic-fragments-play-a-big-role-in-regulating-brain-activity"},"modified":"2026-06-30T22:11:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:11:01","slug":"tiny-genetic-fragments-play-a-big-role-in-regulating-brain-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/tiny-genetic-fragments-play-a-big-role-in-regulating-brain-activity","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Genetic Fragments Play a Big Role in Regulating Brain Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-genetic-fragments-play-a-big-role-in-regulating-brain-activity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A study in zebrafish shows that neuronal microexons regulate brain activity by modulating cAMP signaling. Loss of these fragments leads to hyperactivity and sleep disruption, offering insights into mechanisms linked to neurodevelopmental disorders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study in zebrafish shows that neuronal microexons regulate brain activity by modulating cAMP signaling. Loss of these fragments leads to hyperactivity and sleep disruption, offering insights into mechanisms linked to neurodevelopmental disorders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240039","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=240039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}