{"id":260719,"date":"2017-01-12T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=c099c0f1ddc910db14d9be013cc55417"},"modified":"2017-01-12T13:00:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T17:00:10","slug":"some-cells-need-a-haircut-before-duplicating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=260719","title":{"rendered":"Some cells need a &#8216;haircut&#8217; before duplicating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of our cells are equipped with a hairlike &#8220;antenna&#8221; that relays information about the external environment to the cell, and scientists have already discovered that the appearance and disappearance of these so-called primary cilia are synchronized with the process of cellular duplication, called mitosis. Now, cell biologists at Johns Hopkins report the discovery of new information about how this &#8220;hair loss&#8221; and cell duplication are linked through the dramatic clipping of the tips of the cilia\u2014what the scientists dub decapitation\u2014that begins their disassembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of our cells are equipped with a hairlike &#8220;antenna&#8221; that relays information about the external environment to the cell, and scientists have already discovered that the appearance and disappearance of these so-called primary cilia are synchronized with the process of cellular duplication, called mitosis. Now, cell biologists at Johns Hopkins report the discovery of new information about how this &#8220;hair loss&#8221; and cell duplication are linked through the dramatic clipping of the tips of the cilia&mdash;what the scientists dub decapitation&mdash;that begins their disassembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260720,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260719\/revisions\/260720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}