{"id":170834,"date":"2023-08-29T11:22:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T16:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/aggressive-cancer-cells-transformed-into-healthy-cells-in-breakthrough"},"modified":"2023-08-29T11:22:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T16:22:20","slug":"aggressive-cancer-cells-transformed-into-healthy-cells-in-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/aggressive-cancer-cells-transformed-into-healthy-cells-in-breakthrough","title":{"rendered":"Aggressive Cancer Cells Transformed Into Healthy Cells in Breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/aggressive-cancer-cells-transformed-into-healthy-cells-in-breakthrough2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is good news! The article says this could lead to treatment of other cancers.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A particularly aggressive form of childhood <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/cancer\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">cancer<\/a> that forms in muscle tissue might have a new treatment option on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have successfully induced rhabdomyosarcoma cells to transform into normal, healthy muscle cells. It\u2019s a breakthrough that could see the development of new therapies for the cruel disease, and it could lead to similar breakthroughs for other types of human cancers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cells literally turn into muscle,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cshl.edu\/once-rhabdomyosarcoma-now-muscle\/\">says molecular biologist Christopher Vakoc of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is good news! The article says this could lead to treatment of other cancers. A particularly aggressive form of childhood cancer that forms in muscle tissue might have a new treatment option on the horizon. Scientists have successfully induced rhabdomyosarcoma cells to transform into normal, healthy muscle cells. It\u2019s a breakthrough that could see [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":528,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170834","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\/528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}