{"id":24723,"date":"2016-04-16T13:02:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T20:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/memory-suppressor-gene-identified"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:02:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:02:16","slug":"memory-suppressor-gene-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/memory-suppressor-gene-identified","title":{"rendered":"Memory Suppressor Gene Identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/memory-suppressor-gene-identified.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nice<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" alt=\"Authors of the new study included The Scripps Research Institute\u2019s (left to right)  Research Associate Ze Liu, Research Associate Yunchao Gai and Chair of the Department of Neuroscience Ron Davis.\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/memory-suppressor-gene-identified.jpg\" \/>Researchers from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) identified a gene that suppresses memory in the brain cells of fruit flies, and the findings could provide targets for potential new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>The team, led by Ron Davis, chair of TSRI\u2019s Department of Neuroscience scanned about 3,500 <em>Drosophila<\/em> genes, and found multiple dozen memory suppressor genes that help the brain prioritize information and keep certain important memories.<\/p>\n<p>The gene known as DmSLC22A was of particular interest, and when the team disabled it they found the flies\u2019 memory improved nearly two-fold. \u201cThe fact that this gene is active in the same pathway as several cognitive enhancers currently used for the treatment of Alzheimer\u2019s disease suggests it could be a potential new therapeutic target,\u201d Davis said in a prepared statement.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biosciencetechnology.com\/news\/2016\/04\/memory-suppressor-gene-identified\">http:\/\/www.biosciencetechnology.com\/news\/2016\/04\/memory-supp...identified<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice Researchers from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) identified a gene that suppresses memory in the brain cells of fruit flies, and the findings could provide targets for potential new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer\u2019s. The team, led by Ron Davis, chair of TSRI\u2019s Department of Neuroscience scanned about 3,500 Drosophila genes, and found [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24723","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\/24723","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24723"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67690,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24723\/revisions\/67690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}