{"id":426021,"date":"2018-01-11T02:32:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T06:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=207588f6a5df2af8e78dfce439386d52"},"modified":"2018-01-11T02:32:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T06:32:24","slug":"malaria-parasite-packs-genetic-material-for-trip-from-mosquitoes-to-humans-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=426021","title":{"rendered":"Malaria parasite packs genetic material for trip from mosquitoes to humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The parasite that causes malaria has not one, but two, specialized proteins that protect its messenger RNAs\u2014genetic material that encodes for proteins\u2014until the parasite takes up residence in a new mosquito or a human host. A new study by researchers at Penn State describes the two proteins and reveals an additional role that one may play to facilitate RNA-based interactions between the parasite, its mosquito vector, and its human host. The study appears January 10, 2018, in the journal mSphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The parasite that causes malaria has not one, but two, specialized proteins that protect its messenger RNAs&mdash;genetic material that encodes for proteins&mdash;until the parasite takes up residence in a new mosquito or a human host. A new study by researchers at Penn State describes the two proteins and reveals an additional role that one may play to facilitate RNA-based interactions between the parasite, its mosquito vector, and its human host. The study appears January 10, 2018, in the journal mSphere.<\/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-426021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426021","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=426021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426022,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426021\/revisions\/426022"}],"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=426021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}