{"id":544068,"date":"2010-04-27T00:13:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T04:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2010-04-27T00:13:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T04:13:43","slug":"blood-genes-where-there-is-no-blood-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/544068","title":{"rendered":"Blood Genes Where There Is No Blood | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In tomorrow&#8217;s <em>New York Times<\/em>, I take a look at a new way of finding disease-related genes: search their ancient evolutionary history. Scientists can find genes involved in blood vessel growth in yeast&#8211;which have no blood. They can find genes that help build human embryos in plants, where they sense gravity. It&#8217;s a twist on a twist on Darwin&#8217;s great insights descent with modification. And I&#8217;m pleased to see that University of Chicago evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne, a tough audience if ever there was one, is <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/26\/yeast-evolution-and-medicine\/\">swayed<\/a> by the piece. <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/27\/science\/27gene.html\">So check it out!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/v_Vhqokc66eP7Ua1VPHT-K-UFDk\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/v_Vhqokc66eP7Ua1VPHT-K-UFDk\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/v_Vhqokc66eP7Ua1VPHT-K-UFDk\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/v_Vhqokc66eP7Ua1VPHT-K-UFDk\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Loom\/~4\/pQnY5cm9dbg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/59CchJVr04A\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In tomorrow&#8217;s New York Times, I take a look at a new way of finding disease-related genes: search their ancient evolutionary history. Scientists can find genes involved in blood vessel growth in yeast&#8211;which have no blood. They can find genes that help build human embryos in plants, where they sense gravity. It&#8217;s a twist on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}