{"id":128422,"date":"2021-10-02T04:22:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T11:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/mapping-proteins-could-offer-a-clearer-view-of-whats-driving-cancer"},"modified":"2021-10-02T04:22:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T11:22:32","slug":"mapping-proteins-could-offer-a-clearer-view-of-whats-driving-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/mapping-proteins-could-offer-a-clearer-view-of-whats-driving-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Mapping proteins could offer a clearer view of what\u2019s driving cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mapping-proteins-could-offer-a-clearer-view-of-whats-driving-cancer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Genetic information can be messy. Mapping proteins could offer a clearer view of what\u2019s driving cancer.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists have unveiled new maps of the protein networks underlying different types of cancer, offering a potentially clearer way to see what\u2019s driving the disease and to find therapeutic targets.<\/p>\n<p>Sequencing the genetic information of tumors can provide a trove of data about the mutations contained in those cancer cells. Some of those mutations help doctors figure out the best way to treat a patient, but others remain more of a mystery than a clear instruction manual. Many are exceedingly rare, or there are so many mutations it\u2019s not clear what\u2019s fueling the cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genetic information can be messy. Mapping proteins could offer a clearer view of what\u2019s driving cancer. Scientists have unveiled new maps of the protein networks underlying different types of cancer, offering a potentially clearer way to see what\u2019s driving the disease and to find therapeutic targets. Sequencing the genetic information of tumors can provide a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}