{"id":73406,"date":"2017-10-20T22:43:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T05:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/newly-developed-switch-activates-genes-thousands-of-times-better-than-nature"},"modified":"2017-10-20T22:43:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T05:43:15","slug":"newly-developed-switch-activates-genes-thousands-of-times-better-than-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/newly-developed-switch-activates-genes-thousands-of-times-better-than-nature","title":{"rendered":"Newly developed switch activates genes thousands of times better than nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/newly-developed-switch-activates-genes-thousands-of-times-better-than-nature2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If scientists could precisely regulate gene expression, they could turn off the genes responsible for illness and disease and turn on those that enhance health and the immune system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is why controlling gene expression is so fundamental,\u201d said Northwestern University\u2019s Julius Lucks. \u201cOnce you get a good handle on it, you can do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Lucks, having a \u201cgood\u201d handle on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/gene+expression\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gene expression<\/a> might be an understatement. He and his team have developed a powerful and versatile tool that achieves gene activation thousands of times better than nature.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/m.phys.org\/news\/2017-10-newly-genes-thousands-nature.html\">https:\/\/m.phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;10-newly-genes-thousands-nature.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If scientists could precisely regulate gene expression, they could turn off the genes responsible for illness and disease and turn on those that enhance health and the immune system. \u201cThis is why controlling gene expression is so fundamental,\u201d said Northwestern University\u2019s Julius Lucks. \u201cOnce you get a good handle on it, you can do anything.\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73406","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}