{"id":94586,"date":"2019-08-08T13:42:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T20:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/after-you-die-these-genes-come-to-life"},"modified":"2019-08-08T13:42:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T20:42:56","slug":"after-you-die-these-genes-come-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/after-you-die-these-genes-come-to-life","title":{"rendered":"After You Die, These Genes Come to Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/after-you-die-these-genes-come-to-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the time we see Bambi\u2019s mom bite the dust, we all know what death is. At least, we think we do. But the simple definition of death\u2014that the body stops working\u2014doesn\u2019t take into account how weird our bodies actually are.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe really know nothing about what happens when you die,\u201d says Peter Noble, a former professor at the University of Alabama. Noble knows firsthand that surprises await scientists studying the end of life: he helped discover that long-dormant genes can spring into action hours or even days after an organism dies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the time we see Bambi\u2019s mom bite the dust, we all know what death is. At least, we think we do. But the simple definition of death\u2014that the body stops working\u2014doesn\u2019t take into account how weird our bodies actually are. \u201cWe really know nothing about what happens when you die,\u201d says Peter Noble, a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94586","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}