{"id":21683,"date":"2016-02-05T16:47:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T00:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/inflammation-in-the-gut-increases-risk-of-colon-cancer"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:12:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:12:47","slug":"inflammation-in-the-gut-increases-risk-of-colon-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/inflammation-in-the-gut-increases-risk-of-colon-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Inflammation in the Gut Increases Risk of Colon Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inflammation-in-the-gut-increases-risk-of-colon-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Repeated incidents of inflammation in the stomach could mean a higher risk to colon cancer \u2014 new research released shows this.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cA quarter of the world\u2019s population is affected by some type of gut inflammation and these patients always have a much higher chance of developing colon cancer,\u201d said lead author Xiling Shen, associate professor at Duke University in North Carolina, US.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists focussed on a microRNA \u2014 a class of naturally occurring, small non-coding ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules \u2014 called miR-34a that gives cancer stem cells the odd ability to divide asymmetrically. This process controls the cancerous stem cell population and generates a diverse set of cells.<\/p>\n<p>However, the problem showed up when the mice\u2019s tissues became inflamed. Without any microRNA miR-34a, their stem cells quickly grew out of control and formed many tumour-like structures, the researchers elucidated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.medindia.net\/news\/inflammation-in-the-gut-increases-risk-of-colon-cancer-157476-1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Repeated incidents of inflammation in the stomach could mean a higher risk to colon cancer \u2014 new research released shows this. \u201cA quarter of the world\u2019s population is affected by some type of gut inflammation and these patients always have a much higher chance of developing colon cancer,\u201d said lead author Xiling Shen, associate professor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21683","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68584,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21683\/revisions\/68584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}