{"id":217183,"date":"2025-07-04T06:17:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/incurable-blood-cancer-tied-to-gene-mutation-in-new-lab-model"},"modified":"2025-07-04T06:17:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:17:59","slug":"incurable-blood-cancer-tied-to-gene-mutation-in-new-lab-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/incurable-blood-cancer-tied-to-gene-mutation-in-new-lab-model","title":{"rendered":"Incurable blood cancer tied to gene mutation in new lab model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/incurable-blood-cancer-tied-to-gene-mutation-in-new-lab-model2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers working on an incurable blood cancer can now use a new lab model that could make testing potential new treatments and diagnostics easier and quicker, new research has found.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-60192-8\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, a team of researchers led by the University of Birmingham has studied <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/blood+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">blood cells<\/a> from patients with a blood cancer called myelodysplastic syndrome disease (MDS). This disease often develops into a highly aggressive form of acute myeloid leukemia (AML).<\/p>\n<p>Working with this new model has led to confirmation that a mutation in the gene CEBPA causes progression from MDS to AML.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers working on an incurable blood cancer can now use a new lab model that could make testing potential new treatments and diagnostics easier and quicker, new research has found. In a paper published in Nature Communications, a team of researchers led by the University of Birmingham has studied blood cells from patients with a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217183","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=217183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}