{"id":241726,"date":"2026-07-28T20:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/how-brain-cells-restore-healthy-growth-and-connections-after-a-disease-causing-genetic-deletion"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:18:14","slug":"how-brain-cells-restore-healthy-growth-and-connections-after-a-disease-causing-genetic-deletion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/how-brain-cells-restore-healthy-growth-and-connections-after-a-disease-causing-genetic-deletion","title":{"rendered":"How brain cells restore healthy growth and connections after a disease-causing genetic deletion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-brain-cells-restore-healthy-growth-and-connections-after-a-disease-causing-genetic-deletion.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Virginia Tech\u2019s Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have discovered how an experimental therapy can help brain cells overcome the effects of a disease-causing genetic deletion. Instead of repairing the deletion and its immediate consequences, the therapy redirects brain development by helping at-risk neurons grow and connect more normally.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.biologists.com\/dmm\/article\/doi\/10.1242\/dmm.052786\/372016\/An-antioxidant-therapy-elicits-distinct\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Disease Models &amp; Mechanisms<\/i>, suggest that some genetic brain disorders may be treated by targeting the cellular mechanisms disrupted by a genetic change rather than repairing the genetic change itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Virginia Tech\u2019s Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have discovered how an experimental therapy can help brain cells overcome the effects of a disease-causing genetic deletion. Instead of repairing the deletion and its immediate consequences, the therapy redirects brain development by helping at-risk neurons grow and connect more normally. The findings, published 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":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241726","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=241726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}