{"id":201327,"date":"2024-12-12T01:29:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T07:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/early-cancer-detection-boosted-by-molecular-fingerprint"},"modified":"2024-12-12T01:29:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T07:29:33","slug":"early-cancer-detection-boosted-by-molecular-fingerprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/early-cancer-detection-boosted-by-molecular-fingerprint","title":{"rendered":"Early Cancer Detection Boosted by Molecular Fingerprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/early-cancer-detection-boosted-by-molecular-fingerprint.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Human fingerprints are detailed, unique, difficult to alter, and durable over the life of an individual, making them suitable as long-term markers of human identity. Could the same concept be used to help identify cancer? A new study by researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona reveals different types of cancer have unique molecular \u201cfingerprints\u201d that are detectable in the early stages of the disease and can be picked up with near-perfect accuracy by small, portable scanners in a few hours. The discovery lays the groundwork for creating new, noninvasive diagnostic tests that detect different types of cancer faster and earlier than currently possible.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are published in the journal <em>Molecular Cell <\/em>in an article entitled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/molecular-cell\/abstract\/S1097-2765(24)00919-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Epitranscriptomic rRNA fingerprinting reveals tissue-of-origin and tumor-specific signatures<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur ribosomes are not all the same. They are specialized in different tissues and carry unique signatures that reflect what\u2019s happening inside our bodies,\u201d explained ICREA research professor Eva Novoa, PhD, lead author of the study and researcher at the CRG. \u201cThese subtle differences can tell us a lot about health and disease.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human fingerprints are detailed, unique, difficult to alter, and durable over the life of an individual, making them suitable as long-term markers of human identity. Could the same concept be used to help identify cancer? A new study by researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona reveals different types of cancer have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201327","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=201327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}