{"id":31340,"date":"2026-11-10T19:14:29","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T19:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/11\/10\/an-ancient-virus-may-hold-the-secret-to-what-makes-the-human-brain-different\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T19:14:29","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T19:14:29","slug":"an-ancient-virus-may-hold-the-secret-to-what-makes-the-human-brain-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/11\/10\/an-ancient-virus-may-hold-the-secret-to-what-makes-the-human-brain-different\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ancient Virus May Hold the Secret to What Makes the Human Brain Different"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/an-ancient-virus-may-hold-the-secret-to-what-makes-the-human-brain-different\/\" title=\"An Ancient Virus May Hold the Secret to What Makes the Human Brain Different\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"777\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Genetic-Brain-Disorders-DNA-Helix-777x518.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Genetic Brain Disorders DNA Helix\" \/><\/a>Could a virus that infected chimpanzees millions of years ago help explain how the human brain became different? Researchers at Lund University have discovered that ancient viral DNA embedded in the chimpanzee genome silences a gene involved in early human brain development. Their study, published in Science Advances, found that the gene, LINC00662, remains active [&#8230;]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could a virus that infected chimpanzees millions of years ago help explain how the human brain became different? Researchers at Lund University have discovered that ancient viral DNA embedded in the chimpanzee genome silences a gene involved in early human brain development. Their study, published in Science Advances, found that the gene, LINC00662, remains active &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/11\/10\/an-ancient-virus-may-hold-the-secret-to-what-makes-the-human-brain-different\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Ancient Virus May Hold the Secret to What Makes the Human Brain Different&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}