{"id":16579,"date":"2014-03-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/actualites-et-publications\/national-geographic-interested-in-a-discovery-by-pr-guillaume-bourque-published-in-a-nature-publication\/"},"modified":"2014-03-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T04:00:00","slug":"national-geographic-interested-in-a-discovery-by-pr-guillaume-bourque-published-in-a-nature-publication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/news-and-publications\/national-geographic-interested-in-a-discovery-by-pr-guillaume-bourque-published-in-a-nature-publication\/","title":{"rendered":"National Geographic interested in a discovery by Pr. Guillaume Bourque published in a Nature publication"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"page_head\">Pr. Guillaume Bourque, Director of Bioinformatics at the McGill University and G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec Innovation Centre, published an article in Nature Structural &#038; Molecular Biology on the retrovirus HERV, a long noncoding RNA required for human embryonic stem cell identity.<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"page_head\">\n<p>The discovery sheds light on the role viruses play in human evolution and could help scientists better understand how to use stem cells in advanced therapies or even how to convert normal cells into stem cells.<\/p>\n<p>Read in National Geographic : <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2014\/03\/140330-embryonic-stem-cell-virus-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Ancient Virus DNA Gives Stem Cells the Power to Transform&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nsmb\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nsmb.2799.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the article in Nature Structural &#038; Molecular Biology<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pr. Guillaume Bourque, Director of Bioinformatics at the McGill University and G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec Innovation Centre, published an article in Nature Structural &#038; Molecular Biology on the retrovirus HERV, a long&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}