{"id":99426,"date":"2019-12-07T09:22:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T17:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/ancient-worm-reveals-way-to-destroy-toxic-cells-in-huntingtons-disease"},"modified":"2019-12-07T09:22:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T17:22:33","slug":"ancient-worm-reveals-way-to-destroy-toxic-cells-in-huntingtons-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/ancient-worm-reveals-way-to-destroy-toxic-cells-in-huntingtons-disease","title":{"rendered":"Ancient worm reveals way to destroy toxic cells in Huntington\u2019s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ancient-worm-reveals-way-to-destroy-toxic-cells-in-huntingtons-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Insights from their study may provide a novel therapeutic approach for diseases such as Huntington\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Associate Professor Roger Pocock, from the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI), and colleagues from the University of Cambridge led by Professor David Rubinsztein, found that microRNAs are important in controlling <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/protein+aggregates\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">protein aggregates<\/a>, proteins that have amassed due to a malfunction in the process of \u2018folding\u2019 that determines their shape.<\/p>\n<p>Their findings were published in <i>eLife<\/i> today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insights from their study may provide a novel therapeutic approach for diseases such as Huntington\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s. Associate Professor Roger Pocock, from the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI), and colleagues from the University of Cambridge led by Professor David Rubinsztein, found that microRNAs are important in controlling protein aggregates, proteins that have amassed due to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99426","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}