{"id":72492,"date":"2017-09-12T10:42:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T17:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/scientists-discover-genetic-timetable-of-brains-aging-process"},"modified":"2017-09-14T17:00:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T00:00:43","slug":"scientists-discover-genetic-timetable-of-brains-aging-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/scientists-discover-genetic-timetable-of-brains-aging-process","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover genetic timetable of brain\u2019s aging process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-genetic-timetable-of-brains-aging-process2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brain scientists have identified a genetic programme that controls the way our brain changes throughout life.<\/p>\n<p>The programme controls how and when brain genes are expressed at different times in a person\u2019s life to perform a range of functions, the study found.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say the timing is so precise that they can tell the age of a person by looking at the genes that are expressed in a sample of brain tissue.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2017-09-scientists-genetic-timetable-brain-aging.html\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2017&#45;09-scientists-geneti...aging.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brain scientists have identified a genetic programme that controls the way our brain changes throughout life. The programme controls how and when brain genes are expressed at different times in a person\u2019s life to perform a range of functions, the study found. Experts say the timing is so precise that they can tell the age [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":444,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72492","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\/444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72585,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72492\/revisions\/72585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}