{"id":149912,"date":"2022-11-11T01:23:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T07:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/making-melanoma-immortal-pitt-scientists-discover-key-genetic-step-in-cancers-race-to-live-forever"},"modified":"2022-11-11T01:23:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T07:23:10","slug":"making-melanoma-immortal-pitt-scientists-discover-key-genetic-step-in-cancers-race-to-live-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/making-melanoma-immortal-pitt-scientists-discover-key-genetic-step-in-cancers-race-to-live-forever","title":{"rendered":"Making melanoma immortal: Pitt scientists discover key genetic step in cancer\u2019s race to live forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/making-melanoma-immortal-pitt-scientists-discover-key-genetic-step-in-cancers-race-to-live-forever.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medschool.pitt.edu\/\">University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine<\/a> have discovered the missing puzzle piece in the mystery of how melanoma tumors control their mortality.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.abq0607\">Science<\/a><\/em> this week, Jonathan Alder, Ph.D. and his team describe how they discovered the perfect combination of genetic alterations that tumors use to promote explosive growth and prevent their own demise, a development that could change the way oncologists understand and treat melanoma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did something that was, in essence, obvious based on previous basic research and connected back to something that is happening in patients,\u201d said Alder, assistant professor in <a href=\"https:\/\/dom.pitt.edu\/paccm\/\">the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine at Pitt\u2019s School of Medicine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have discovered the missing puzzle piece in the mystery of how melanoma tumors control their mortality. In a paper published in Science this week, Jonathan Alder, Ph.D. and his team describe how they discovered the perfect combination of genetic alterations that tumors use to promote explosive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149912","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}