{"id":167717,"date":"2023-07-17T18:24:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T23:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/scientists-discover-fungi-that-can-stop-cancer-to-live-longer"},"modified":"2023-07-17T18:24:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T23:24:49","slug":"scientists-discover-fungi-that-can-stop-cancer-to-live-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/scientists-discover-fungi-that-can-stop-cancer-to-live-longer","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover fungi that can stop cancer to live longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-fungi-that-can-stop-cancer-to-live-longer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some long-lived fungi species appear to be able to use a special type of cell division to stop cell mutations in their tracks, reducing the chances of cancers growing, scientists have discovered.<\/p>\n<p>Fungi are comprised of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/cordyceps-fungus-zombie-last-us-real-hbo-1774684\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Real-World Origin of the Cordyceps Fungus Zombie From 'The Last of Us'\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">networks of filaments<\/a> known as mycelium. Within the cells of these filaments, there are usually single nuclei with half a set of chromosomes, known as \u201chaploid,\u201d similar to a human sperm or egg. Only when the fungus needs to produce spores to reproduce asexually, such as in the gills of mushrooms do these nuclei fuse.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Wageningen University &amp; Research revealed in a paper published in the journal <em><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.asm.org\/doi\/10.1128\/mmbr.00022-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"\">Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews<\/a><\/em> that mutations may arise in these nuclei that prevent the mycelium filaments from fusing, therefore stopping the fungus\u2019s ability to produce spores and reproduce asexually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some long-lived fungi species appear to be able to use a special type of cell division to stop cell mutations in their tracks, reducing the chances of cancers growing, scientists have discovered. Fungi are comprised of networks of filaments known as mycelium. Within the cells of these filaments, there are usually single nuclei with half [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167717","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\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}