{"id":245634,"date":"2026-10-19T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/a-gene-from-the-human-brain-leapt-into-a-virus-and-scientists-have-no-idea-what-its-doing-there"},"modified":"2026-10-19T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:10:00","slug":"a-gene-from-the-human-brain-leapt-into-a-virus-and-scientists-have-no-idea-what-its-doing-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/a-gene-from-the-human-brain-leapt-into-a-virus-and-scientists-have-no-idea-what-its-doing-there","title":{"rendered":"A Gene From the Human Brain Leapt Into a Virus\u2014and Scientists Have No Idea What It\u2019s Doing There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-gene-from-the-human-brain-leapt-into-a-virus-and-scientists-have-no-idea-what-its-doing-there.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers say BC200\u2019s double life has never been seen before. The implications aren\u2019t comforting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say BC200\u2019s double life has never been seen before. The implications aren\u2019t comforting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245634","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\/245634","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=245634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}