{"id":153203,"date":"2022-12-19T13:24:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T19:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/origins-of-rare-childhood-cancer-like-disease-identified"},"modified":"2022-12-19T13:24:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T19:24:06","slug":"origins-of-rare-childhood-cancer-like-disease-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/origins-of-rare-childhood-cancer-like-disease-identified","title":{"rendered":"Origins of Rare Childhood Cancer-Like Disease Identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/origins-of-rare-childhood-cancer-like-disease-identified.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Until now, some researchers believed Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH), a rare and fatal form of cancer in children, is derived from immune cells called dendritic cells, while others believed that they originate from related immune cells called monocytes. A new study showed mutated LCH cells have properties similar to both monocytes and dendritic cells, as well as a relatively new type of dendritic cell called DC3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until now, some researchers believed Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH), a rare and fatal form of cancer in children, is derived from immune cells called dendritic cells, while others believed that they originate from related immune cells called monocytes. A new study showed mutated LCH cells have properties similar to both monocytes and dendritic cells, as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153203","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}