{"id":91766,"date":"2019-06-08T08:22:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T15:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/human-body-is-a-mosaic-pattern-of-dna-mutations-say-researchers"},"modified":"2019-06-08T08:22:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T15:22:25","slug":"human-body-is-a-mosaic-pattern-of-dna-mutations-say-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/human-body-is-a-mosaic-pattern-of-dna-mutations-say-researchers","title":{"rendered":"Human body is a mosaic pattern of DNA mutations, say researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/human-body-is-a-mosaic-pattern-of-dna-mutations-say-researchers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have discovered that the human body\u2019s 3 trillion cells aren\u2019t clones of a single DNA sequence, as is widely believed. Instead, the cells of the human body contain a plethora of altered DNA, called mutations. These multiply to produce patches of tissue, called \u201csomatic clones,\u201d inside the \u2018normal\u2019 tissue. The scientific term for this phenomenon is mosaicism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/20190607\/Human-body-is-a-mosaic-pattern-of-DNA-mutations-say-researchers.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered that the human body\u2019s 3 trillion cells aren\u2019t clones of a single DNA sequence, as is widely believed. Instead, the cells of the human body contain a plethora of altered DNA, called mutations. These multiply to produce patches of tissue, called \u201csomatic clones,\u201d inside the \u2018normal\u2019 tissue. The scientific term for this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91766","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=91766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}