{"id":75390,"date":"2018-01-18T10:03:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T18:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/humans-share-a-relevant-gene-with-this-fish-that-can-repair-its-spinal-cord"},"modified":"2018-01-18T10:03:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T18:03:47","slug":"humans-share-a-relevant-gene-with-this-fish-that-can-repair-its-spinal-cord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/humans-share-a-relevant-gene-with-this-fish-that-can-repair-its-spinal-cord","title":{"rendered":"Humans Share a Relevant Gene With This Fish That Can Repair Its Spinal Cord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/humans-share-a-relevant-gene-with-this-fish-that-can-repair-its-spinal-cord.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lamprey looks about as different from a human as you can imagine. This fish has an eel-like, finless body, bulging eyes, and a circle of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lamprey#\/media\/File: Boca_de_lamprea.1_-_Aquarium_Finisterrae. JPG\">frankly horrifying teeth<\/a> in place of a jaw, which some species use to latch onto other animals and suck their blood.<\/p>\n<p>Yet these alien-looking creatures share something fairly extraordinary with humans: we both contain genes that, in the lamprey, allows it to repair broken spinal cords.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery shows promise for medicine: if we could one day activate the same gene in humans, we could reverse spinal cord damage \u2014 even paralysis.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/humans-have-the-same-gene-as-this-fish-that-can-repair-its-spinal-cord?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Branded+Content&utm_campaign=ScienceNaturePage\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/humans-have-the-same-gene-as-th...NaturePage<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lamprey looks about as different from a human as you can imagine. This fish has an eel-like, finless body, bulging eyes, and a circle of frankly horrifying teeth in place of a jaw, which some species use to latch onto other animals and suck their blood. Yet these alien-looking creatures share something fairly extraordinary [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75390","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=75390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}