{"id":1364,"date":"2017-12-28T13:05:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T19:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2017-12-29T13:15:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T19:15:18","slug":"researchers-pinpoint-protein-at-heart-of-als-communication-breakdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1364","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Pinpoint Protein at Heart of ALS Communication Breakdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 181px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/580116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/75\/ALS_Coronal.jpg\/235px-ALS_Coronal.jpg\" width=\"181\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">MRI of ALS patient. Image courtesy Frank Gaillard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No cure exists for Lou Gehrig&#8217;s disease, a fatal neuromuscular illness affecting tens of thousands of Americans. But scientists may have found how a key protein helps drive its degenerative progress.<\/p>\n<p>Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/580116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UA, Barrow Researchers Explain ALS Key Protein Breakdown<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No cure exists for Lou Gehrig&#8217;s disease, a fatal neuromuscular illness affecting tens of thousands of Americans. But scientists may have found how a key protein helps drive its degenerative progress. Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk: UA, Barrow Researchers Explain ALS Key Protein Breakdown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,84,82,67,475],"tags":[1246,160,1365,654,1367,1366],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biochemistry","category-genetics","category-health","category-medicine","category-neuroscience-science","tag-als","tag-alzheimers-disease","tag-hsc70","tag-lou-gehrig","tag-stem-cells","tag-tdp-43"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}