{"id":225793,"date":"2025-11-24T16:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/new-genetic-biomarker-flags-aggressive-brain-tumors"},"modified":"2025-11-24T16:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:06:07","slug":"new-genetic-biomarker-flags-aggressive-brain-tumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/new-genetic-biomarker-flags-aggressive-brain-tumors","title":{"rendered":"New genetic biomarker flags aggressive brain tumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-genetic-biomarker-flags-aggressive-brain-tumors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clinicians typically classify meningiomas \u2014 the most common type of brain tumor \u2014 into three grades, ranging from slow-growing to aggressive.<\/p>\n<p>But a new multi-institutional study suggests that appearances may be deceiving. If a tumor shows activity in a gene called telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT), it tends to recur more quickly, even if it looks low-grade under the microscope.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers discover that when meningiomas, a type of brain tumor, shows activity in the TERT gene, it tends to recur more quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clinicians typically classify meningiomas \u2014 the most common type of brain tumor \u2014 into three grades, ranging from slow-growing to aggressive. But a new multi-institutional study suggests that appearances may be deceiving. If a tumor shows activity in a gene called telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT), it tends to recur more quickly, even if it looks [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225793","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=225793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}