{"id":584822,"date":"2019-02-27T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=1e4623de79a327783947c904a334f7dc"},"modified":"2019-02-27T06:00:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T10:00:06","slug":"biologists-find-the-long-and-short-of-it-when-it-comes-to-chromosomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=584822","title":{"rendered":"Biologists find the long and short of it when it comes to chromosomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of biologists has uncovered a mechanism that determines faithful inheritance of short chromosomes during the reproductive process. The discovery, reported in the journal Nature Communications, elucidates a key aspect of inheritance\u2014deviation from which can lead to infertility, miscarriages, or birth defects such as Down syndrome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of biologists has uncovered a mechanism that determines faithful inheritance of short chromosomes during the reproductive process. The discovery, reported in the journal Nature Communications, elucidates a key aspect of inheritance&mdash;deviation from which can lead to infertility, miscarriages, or birth defects such as Down syndrome.<\/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-584822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584822","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=584822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584823,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584822\/revisions\/584823"}],"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=584822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=584822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=584822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}