{"id":228673,"date":"2026-01-09T21:19:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/abstract-merlins-disappearing-act-nf2-loss-conjures-pancreatic-cancer-survival-in-the-hostile-tumor-microenvironment"},"modified":"2026-01-09T21:19:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:19:40","slug":"abstract-merlins-disappearing-act-nf2-loss-conjures-pancreatic-cancer-survival-in-the-hostile-tumor-microenvironment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/abstract-merlins-disappearing-act-nf2-loss-conjures-pancreatic-cancer-survival-in-the-hostile-tumor-microenvironment","title":{"rendered":"Abstract: Merlin\u2019s Disappearing Act: NF2 loss conjures pancreatic cancer survival in the hostile tumor microenvironment:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/abstract44.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sofia Ferreira &amp; Laura D. Attardi comment on Yi Xu et al.: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1172\/JCI194395\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1172\/JCI194395<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<sup>1<\/sup>Division of Radiation and Cancer Biology, Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.<\/p>\n<p><sup>2<\/sup>Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.<\/p>\n<p>Address correspondence to: Laura D. Attardi, Stanford University School of Medicine, 269 Campus Drive, CCSR-South, Room 1,255, Stanford, California, 94,305, USA. Phone: 650.725.8424; Email: <a href=\"mailto:attardi@stanford.edu\">attardi@stanford.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sofia Ferreira &amp; Laura D. Attardi comment on Yi Xu et al.: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1172\/JCI194395 1Division of Radiation and Cancer Biology, Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA. 2Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA. Address correspondence to: Laura D. Attardi, Stanford University School of Medicine, 269 Campus [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228673","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=228673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}