{"id":745295,"date":"2023-01-11T11:01:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T15:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=745295"},"modified":"2023-01-11T11:01:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T15:01:16","slug":"abnormal-rna-gums-up-the-works-in-brain-cells-shows-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=745295","title":{"rendered":"Abnormal RNA gums up the works in brain cells, shows study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our DNA contains four types of molecules, adenine, cytosine, thymine, and guanine\u2014called nucleotides or bases\u2014running along the strands that make up our chromosomes. Since there are only four, it is not unusual to find a short sequence of DNA repeating itself somewhere in the genome. However, when a sequence is repeated too many times in a row\u2014dozens or hundreds of times\u2014it can cause problems for cells. Repeat expansion disorders are a category of neurological disorders driven by these excessive repeats, and they can cause neurodegeneration, muscular dystrophy, intellectual disability, and more.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-01-abnormal-rna-gums-brain-cells.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Abnormal RNA gums up the works in brain cells, shows study<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our DNA contains four types of molecules, adenine, cytosine, thymine, and guanine\u2014called nucleotides or bases\u2014running along the strands that make up our chromosomes. Since there are only four, it is&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745295","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=745295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745295\/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=745295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=745295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=745295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}