{"id":74601,"date":"2017-12-17T21:02:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T05:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/this-italian-family-feels-no-pain-and-scientists-finally-understand-why"},"modified":"2017-12-17T21:02:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T05:02:32","slug":"this-italian-family-feels-no-pain-and-scientists-finally-understand-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/this-italian-family-feels-no-pain-and-scientists-finally-understand-why","title":{"rendered":"This Italian Family Feels No Pain, And Scientists Finally Understand Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-italian-family-feels-no-pain-and-scientists-finally-understand-why.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have identified a mysterious genetic mutation that effectively negates the sensation of pain, enabling people with the rare anomaly to persevere effortlessly through extreme physical discomfort.<\/p>\n<p>The gene variant \u2013 identified in an Italian family who feels almost no pain even when seriously injured \u2013 could help scientists find new treatments for chronic pain that mimic the family\u2019s unusual gift.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have spent several years trying to identify the gene that is the cause of this,\u201d molecular biologist James Cox from University College London told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/italian-family-feel-pain-cannot-rare-genetic-mutation-university-college-london-a8110556.html\"><em>The Independent<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-italian-family-feels-no-pain-scientists-finally-understand-why-marsili-insensitivity\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-italian-family-feels-no-pai...ensitivity<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have identified a mysterious genetic mutation that effectively negates the sensation of pain, enabling people with the rare anomaly to persevere effortlessly through extreme physical discomfort. The gene variant \u2013 identified in an Italian family who feels almost no pain even when seriously injured \u2013 could help scientists find new treatments for chronic pain [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74601","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}