{"id":217370,"date":"2025-07-08T02:29:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T07:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/hidden-role-of-cell-protector-opens-cancer-treatment-possibilities"},"modified":"2025-07-08T02:29:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T07:29:25","slug":"hidden-role-of-cell-protector-opens-cancer-treatment-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/hidden-role-of-cell-protector-opens-cancer-treatment-possibilities","title":{"rendered":"Hidden role of \u2018cell protector\u2019 opens cancer treatment possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hidden-role-of-cell-protector-opens-cancer-treatment-possibilities2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Landmark research on MCL-1, a critical protein that is an attractive target for cancer drug development, helps explain why some promising cancer treatments are causing serious side effects, and offers a roadmap for designing safer, more targeted therapies.<\/p>\n<p>The WEHI-led discovery, published in <em>Science<\/em>, has uncovered a critical new role for MCL-1, revealing it not only prevents cell death but also provides cells with the energy they need to function.<\/p>\n<p>The findings reshape our understanding of how cells survive and thrive, with implications for both cancer treatment and developmental biology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landmark research on MCL-1, a critical protein that is an attractive target for cancer drug development, helps explain why some promising cancer treatments are causing serious side effects, and offers a roadmap for designing safer, more targeted therapies. The WEHI-led discovery, published in Science, has uncovered a critical new role for MCL-1, revealing it not [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217370","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=217370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}