{"id":128427,"date":"2021-10-02T04:24:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T11:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/a-biological-time-machine-with-human-cells-can-help-reverse-cancer"},"modified":"2021-10-02T04:24:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T11:24:31","slug":"a-biological-time-machine-with-human-cells-can-help-reverse-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/a-biological-time-machine-with-human-cells-can-help-reverse-cancer","title":{"rendered":"A Biological \u2018Time Machine\u2019 With Human Cells Can Help Reverse Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j180c-Yj2rI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And, depending on how further studies progress, it could be implemented via gene therapy.<\/p>\n<p><b>Early-stage pancreatic cancer has a \u2018reset button\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese findings open up the possibility of designing a new gene therapy or drug because now we can convert cancerous cells back into their normal state,\u201d said Professor Bumsoo Han of Purdue\u2019s mechanical engineering, who is also the program leader for the university\u2019s Center for Cancer Research, in <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/releases\/2021\/Q3\/scientists-reverse-pancreatic-cancer-progression-in-time-machine-made-of-human-cells.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">a blog post shared on the university\u2019s official website<\/a>. Han has also received a courtesy appointment in biomedical engineering, according to the post. The new time machine (speaking figuratively) from Han\u2019s lab is a lifelike reproduction of a specific structure of the pancreas, called the acinus, which secretes and produces digestive enzymes into the small intestine. When pancreatic cancer strikes, it typically comes from chronic inflammation, which is caused by a mutation that tricks the digestive enzymes to begin digesting the pancreas itself. This is bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And, depending on how further studies progress, it could be implemented via gene therapy. Early-stage pancreatic cancer has a \u2018reset button\u2019 \u201cThese findings open up the possibility of designing a new gene therapy or drug because now we can convert cancerous cells back into their normal state,\u201d said Professor Bumsoo Han of Purdue\u2019s mechanical engineering, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,412,1515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-genetics","category-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128427","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}