{"id":244017,"date":"2026-09-14T01:04:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T06:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/scientists-find-a-new-layer-of-alzheimers-hidden-in-the-genome"},"modified":"2026-09-14T01:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T06:04:26","slug":"scientists-find-a-new-layer-of-alzheimers-hidden-in-the-genome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/scientists-find-a-new-layer-of-alzheimers-hidden-in-the-genome","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find a new layer of Alzheimer\u2019s hidden in the genome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-a-new-layer-of-alzheimers-hidden-in-the-genome.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists found that the 3D organization of DNA is disrupted in several types of brain cells affected by Alzheimer\u2019s disease, altering how important genes are switched on and off. The discovery reveals a previously underexplored layer of the disease that could open new paths for understanding and eventually treating Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists found that the 3D organization of DNA is disrupted in several types of brain cells affected by Alzheimer\u2019s disease, altering how important genes are switched on and off. The discovery reveals a previously underexplored layer of the disease that could open new paths for understanding and eventually treating Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244017","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\/244017","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}