{"id":35371,"date":"2017-03-15T13:03:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T20:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/george-church-lumosity-want-those-with-good-memory-to-share-it-not-hoard-it"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:09:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:09:06","slug":"george-church-lumosity-want-those-with-good-memory-to-share-it-not-hoard-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/george-church-lumosity-want-those-with-good-memory-to-share-it-not-hoard-it","title":{"rendered":"George Church, Lumosity want those with good memory to \u2018share it, not hoard it\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/george-church-lumosity-want-those-with-good-memory-to-share-it-not-hoard-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>George Church is very interested in your memories now.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/companies.bizjournals.com\/profile\/harvard-university\/128560\/?mkt=boston\" data-id=\"31642\" class=\"\" data-ct=\"APT: bbm_profile_link\">Harvard<\/a> researcher <a href=\"https:\/\/securepubads.g.doubleclick.net\/pcs\/view?xai=AKAOjsuhQ-kgQynv1OqVFh4nCV_mCltThOdOovru5kL4IPgCsCFFfkRjKEycT-HuxSJyD7Xe566ZkAvPidekqGUfLvZcorxSc7QKFvIP5kAwjPCg7uUmawJhKYpFzq-m5gOC3eG-xtZULQIKLtedMDCbkiDE7dwxEksXA3askNmWsNlH2CkwztwVUVQVwY6UfTiyrcSCj79wUvlsh6tmva7Xix7X1qGK73BElbuw030sbieCxUNMqic66axKk-8PLatEk38geHp61XcMDvxBzA&sig=Cg0ArKJSzGi_04jj3jGmEAE&urlfix=1&adurl=https:\/\/tpc.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/imgad?id=CICAgKDLq-WYCxABGAEyCMyp4Igf0JpU&t=10&cT=http%3A\/\/bizjournals.com&l=http%3A\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/boston\/search\/results%3Fq%3DGeorge%2520Church\">George Church<\/a> is looking for people with exceptionally good memory to take part in a study aimed at finding genetic mechanisms that boost memory in research that could one day result in better drugs or diagnostic tests.<\/p>\n<p>Church and other researchers at Harvard\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/companies.bizjournals.com\/profile\/harvard-university\/128560\/?mkt=boston\" data-id=\"31642\" class=\"\" data-ct=\"APT: bbm_profile_link\">Wyss Institute<\/a> for Biologically Inspired Engineering and Harvard Medical School\u2019s Personal Genome Project, in collaboration with Lumos Labs \u2014 the makers of the brain-training game Lumosity \u2014 will look for common genetic markers in individuals with exceptional memories, attention and reaction speeds.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/boston\/news\/2017\/03\/09\/george-church-wants-those-with-good-memory-to.html\">http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/boston\/news\/2017\/03\/09\/george-chu...ry-to.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Church is very interested in your memories now. Harvard researcher George Church is looking for people with exceptionally good memory to take part in a study aimed at finding genetic mechanisms that boost memory in research that could one day result in better drugs or diagnostic tests. Church and other researchers at Harvard\u2019s Wyss [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35371","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58396,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35371\/revisions\/58396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}