{"id":222844,"date":"2025-10-03T03:22:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T08:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/mapping-rna-protein-chats-could-uncover-new-treatments-for-cancer-and-brain-disease"},"modified":"2025-10-03T03:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T08:22:19","slug":"mapping-rna-protein-chats-could-uncover-new-treatments-for-cancer-and-brain-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/mapping-rna-protein-chats-could-uncover-new-treatments-for-cancer-and-brain-disease","title":{"rendered":"Mapping RNA-protein \u2018chats\u2019 could uncover new treatments for cancer and brain disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mapping-rna-protein-chats-could-uncover-new-treatments-for-cancer-and-brain-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a powerful new technology that can map the entire network of RNA-protein interactions inside human cells\u2014an achievement that could offer new strategies for treating diseases ranging from cancer to Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>RNA-protein interactions regulate many essential processes in cells, from turning genes on and off to responding to stress. But until now, scientists could only capture small subsets of these interactions, leaving much of the cellular \u201cconversation\u201d hidden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis technology is like a wiring map of the cell\u2019s conversations,\u201d said Sheng Zhong, professor in the Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, who led the study published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41587-025-02780-z\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature Biotechnology<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a powerful new technology that can map the entire network of RNA-protein interactions inside human cells\u2014an achievement that could offer new strategies for treating diseases ranging from cancer to Alzheimer\u2019s. RNA-protein interactions regulate many essential processes in cells, from turning genes on and off to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222844","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}