{"id":168,"date":"2009-10-21T15:04:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T20:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elegans.uky.edu\/blog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2009-10-21T15:04:21","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T20:04:21","slug":"evolution-of-the-glucocorticoid-receptor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Evolution of the glucocorticoid receptor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2009\/10\/15\/the-blind-locksmith-continued-an-update-from-joe-thornton\/\">letter about the evolution of the glucocorticoid receptor<\/a> from Joe Thornton, a biologist at the University of Oregon.  Thornton&#8217;s lab has figured out some of the details on how this receptor evolved.  Thornton&#8217;s writing this because creationist Behe is passing off a mangled version of his work as evidence for &#8216;intelligent design&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The first <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2006\/04\/06\/the-blind-locksmith\/\">Discover magazine blog post<\/a> gives a good overview of what Thornton&#8217;s lab learned about the  glucocorticoid receptor.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"pics\/94_2_GRHOW_1_V1.jpg\" alt=\"GR receptor pathway\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting letter about the evolution of the glucocorticoid receptor from Joe Thornton, a biologist at the University of Oregon. Thornton&#8217;s lab has figured out some of the details on how this receptor evolved. Thornton&#8217;s writing this because creationist Behe is passing off a mangled version of his work as evidence for &#8216;intelligent design&#8217;. The first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pseudoscience","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}