{
  "id": 16728133,
  "title": "Light-entrained chromatin priming poises rapid metamorphosis in a marine sponge",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/light-entrained-chromatin-priming-poises-rapid-metamorphosis-in-a",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-27T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "eLife",
    "slug": "elife",
    "url": "https://elifesciences.org/articles/111060"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The most widespread animal life cycle includes a planktonic larval stage that is environmentally induced to settle and rapidly metamorphose into a benthic juvenile. Although this transition is critical for survival, how planetary cues such as light interact with local ecological signals to prepare the genome for such rapid reprogramming remains poorly understood. Here, using the sponge Amphimedon…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}