{"id":201266,"date":"2024-12-11T10:34:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T16:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/nanopore-direct-rna-sequencing-finds-cancers-fingerprint-to-improve-early-detection"},"modified":"2024-12-11T10:34:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T16:34:44","slug":"nanopore-direct-rna-sequencing-finds-cancers-fingerprint-to-improve-early-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/nanopore-direct-rna-sequencing-finds-cancers-fingerprint-to-improve-early-detection","title":{"rendered":"Nanopore direct RNA sequencing finds cancer\u2019s \u2018fingerprint\u2019 to improve early detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanopore-direct-rna-sequencing-finds-cancers-fingerprint-to-improve-early-detection.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Different types of cancer have unique molecular \u201cfingerprints\u201d which are detectable in early stages of the disease and can be picked up with near-perfect accuracy by small, portable scanners in just a few hours, according to a study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/molecular-cell\/fulltext\/S1097-2765(24)00919-5\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> today in the journal Molecular Cell.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery by researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona sets the foundation for creating new, non-invasive diagnostic tests that detect different types of cancer faster and earlier than currently possible.<\/p>\n<p>The study centers around the ribosome, the protein factories of a cell. For decades, ribosomes were thought to have the same blueprint across the human body. However, researchers discovered a hidden layer of complexity\u2014tiny chemical modifications which vary between different tissues, developmental stages, and disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Different types of cancer have unique molecular \u201cfingerprints\u201d which are detectable in early stages of the disease and can be picked up with near-perfect accuracy by small, portable scanners in just a few hours, according to a study published today in the journal Molecular Cell. The discovery by researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201266","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\/201266","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}