{"id":198943,"date":"2024-11-08T13:25:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T19:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/unlocking-natures-secret-weapon-fungus-that-fights-cancer"},"modified":"2024-11-08T13:25:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T19:25:40","slug":"unlocking-natures-secret-weapon-fungus-that-fights-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/unlocking-natures-secret-weapon-fungus-that-fights-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking Nature\u2019s Secret Weapon: Fungus That Fights Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unlocking-natures-secret-weapon-fungus-that-fights-cancer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research into a chemical from a caterpillar fungus, known for its potential as a cancer treatment, has shown how it interacts with genes to disrupt cell growth signals. This finding marks a promising step toward developing new cancer drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The chemical, called cordycepin, interrupts overactive cell growth signals common in cancer, potentially offering a treatment approach that could be gentler on healthy tissues compared to many existing therapies.<\/p>\n<p>Caterpillar fungus: a potential cancer treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research into a chemical from a caterpillar fungus, known for its potential as a cancer treatment, has shown how it interacts with genes to disrupt cell growth signals. This finding marks a promising step toward developing new cancer drugs. The chemical, called cordycepin, interrupts overactive cell growth signals common in cancer, potentially offering a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198943","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}