{"id":229337,"date":"2026-01-19T22:14:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/scientists-discover-brain-cancer-begins-in-normal-cells-long-before-tumors-appear"},"modified":"2026-01-19T22:14:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:14:44","slug":"scientists-discover-brain-cancer-begins-in-normal-cells-long-before-tumors-appear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/scientists-discover-brain-cancer-begins-in-normal-cells-long-before-tumors-appear","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover Brain Cancer Begins in \u201cNormal\u201d Cells Long Before Tumors Appear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-brain-cancer-begins-in-normal-cells-long-before-tumors-appear.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research reveals that certain brain tumors may originate silently within normal brain cells long before a tumor forms. IDH-mutant glioma is a malignant brain cancer linked to changes in a single gene (IDH), and it is the most common malignant brain tumor in adults younger than 50. Doctors oft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research reveals that certain brain tumors may originate silently within normal brain cells long before a tumor forms. IDH-mutant glioma is a malignant brain cancer linked to changes in a single gene (IDH), and it is the most common malignant brain tumor in adults younger than 50. Doctors oft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229337","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=229337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}