{"id":84597,"date":"2018-11-08T18:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T02:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/embryos-remember-the-chemicals-that-they-encounter"},"modified":"2018-11-08T18:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T02:22:21","slug":"embryos-remember-the-chemicals-that-they-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/embryos-remember-the-chemicals-that-they-encounter","title":{"rendered":"Embryos remember the chemicals that they encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/embryos-remember-the-chemicals-that-they-encounter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We all start out as a clump of identical cells. As these cells divide and multiply, they gradually take on distinct identities, acquiring the traits necessary to form, for instance, muscle tissue, bone, or nerves. A recent study from Rockefeller scientists offers new insight into how these cellular identities are cultivated over the course of development.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study, published in <i>eLife<\/i>, cells retain a memory of the chemical signals to which they are exposed. And, the researchers show, embryos that fail to form these memories remain a clump of clones, never realizing their unique biological potential.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-11-embryos-chemicals-encounter.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;11-embryos-chemicals-encounter.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all start out as a clump of identical cells. As these cells divide and multiply, they gradually take on distinct identities, acquiring the traits necessary to form, for instance, muscle tissue, bone, or nerves. A recent study from Rockefeller scientists offers new insight into how these cellular identities are cultivated over the course of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84597","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\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}