{"id":618300,"date":"2019-05-23T18:49:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T22:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=618300"},"modified":"2019-05-23T18:49:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T22:49:41","slug":"a-step-closer-to-identifying-cause-of-a-blinding-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=618300","title":{"rendered":"A step closer to identifying cause of a blinding disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study offers an important step in unlocking the mystery of LHON&#8217;s cause. The researchers had previously showed that the cells that connect the eye to the brain were sensitive to a certain free radical, known as &#8216;superoxide,&#8217; and hypothesized that the presence of too much superoxide was likely the cause of LHON.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/05\/190523184941.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">A step closer to identifying cause of a blinding disease<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study offers an important step in unlocking the mystery of LHON&#8217;s cause. The researchers had previously showed that the cells that connect the eye to the brain were&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618300","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=618300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618300\/revisions"}],"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=618300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}