{"id":859483,"date":"2026-09-24T22:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T22:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/859483\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T22:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T22:48:09","slug":"tiny-worms-may-help-doctors-treat-human-brain-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/859483\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny worms may help doctors treat human brain disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA \u2014 Scientists are studying a tiny worm for clues that may help treat brain diseases in humans one day.<\/p>\n<p>The worms are called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildlifetrusts.org\/wildlife-explorer\/marine\/worms\/planaria\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">planarians<\/a>, and they&#8217;re known for an unusual ability. They can regrow parts of their brains.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Georgia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-026-76397-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">identified<\/a> nearly a dozen genes that help the worms grow new brain cells.<\/p>\n<p>Those same types of neurons are found in humans.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers say understanding how those genes work could eventually help scientists develop new treatments for conditions like Parkinson&#8217;s Disease, Alzheimer&#8217;s and brain injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA \u2014 Scientists are studying a tiny worm for clues that may help treat brain diseases in humans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1302,3811,3812,134,3729,3,3813,3814,79,99,1505,2987,3324,2986],"class_list":["post-859483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-cars","tag-classifieds","tag-homes","tag-jobs","tag-local","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-salt-lake","tag-science","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-traffic","tag-utah","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}