{"id":206941,"date":"2025-02-21T12:12:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/japanese-scientists-have-created-a-hydrogel-that-reverts-cancer-cells-back-to-cancer-stem-cells-in-24-hours"},"modified":"2025-02-21T12:12:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:12:15","slug":"japanese-scientists-have-created-a-hydrogel-that-reverts-cancer-cells-back-to-cancer-stem-cells-in-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/japanese-scientists-have-created-a-hydrogel-that-reverts-cancer-cells-back-to-cancer-stem-cells-in-24-hours","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Scientists Have Created a Hydrogel That Reverts Cancer Cells Back to Cancer Stem Cells in 24 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japanese-scientists-have-created-a-hydrogel-that-reverts-cancer-cells-back-to-cancer-stem-cells-in-24-hours.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true that Japanese scientists have made a significant breakthrough concerning hydrogels and cancer cells. Here\u2019s a breakdown of what the research entails:<\/p>\n<p>* The Breakthrough:<\/p>\n<p>* Researchers at Hokkaido University and the National Cancer Center Research Institute developed a novel hydrogel, a \u201cdouble-network (DN) gel,\u201d that can rapidly revert differentiated cancer cells back into cancer stem cells (CSCs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s true that Japanese scientists have made a significant breakthrough concerning hydrogels and cancer cells. Here\u2019s a breakdown of what the research entails: * The Breakthrough: * Researchers at Hokkaido University and the National Cancer Center Research Institute developed a novel hydrogel, a \u201cdouble-network (DN) gel,\u201d that can rapidly revert differentiated cancer cells back into [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206941","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=206941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}