{"id":30842,"date":"2016-10-07T07:46:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T14:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/why-our-brain-cells-die-a-breakthrough-in-fighting-neurodegenerative-diseases"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:30:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:30:13","slug":"why-our-brain-cells-die-a-breakthrough-in-fighting-neurodegenerative-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/why-our-brain-cells-die-a-breakthrough-in-fighting-neurodegenerative-diseases","title":{"rendered":"Why Our Brain Cells Die: A Breakthrough in Fighting Neurodegenerative Diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-our-brain-cells-die-a-breakthrough-in-fighting-neurodegenerative-diseases.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Brief.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Every year, more than 795,000 people in the United States have a stroke. <\/li>\n<li>A team of scientists has discovered a common mechanism chain leading to brain cell death which involves proteins eating away at a cell\u2019s DNA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A team of scientists has discovered that, despite having varied causes and symptoms, most brain diseases all share a common mechanism chain leading to brain cell death. The process, aptly named <i>parthanatos<\/i> after an enzyme called PARP and the Greek god of death, involves proteins eating away at the cell\u2019s DNA.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/why-our-brain-cells-die-a-breakthrough-in-fighting-neurodegenerative-diseases\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/why-our-brain-cells-die-a-breakthrough-i...-diseases\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brief. Every year, more than 795,000 people in the United States have a stroke. A team of scientists has discovered a common mechanism chain leading to brain cell death which involves proteins eating away at a cell\u2019s DNA. A team of scientists has discovered that, despite having varied causes and symptoms, most brain diseases [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30842","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\/30842","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\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49762,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30842\/revisions\/49762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}