{"id":232527,"date":"2026-03-04T01:23:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/chemically-stapled-peptides-used-to-target-difficult-to-treat-cancers"},"modified":"2026-03-04T01:23:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:23:45","slug":"chemically-stapled-peptides-used-to-target-difficult-to-treat-cancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/chemically-stapled-peptides-used-to-target-difficult-to-treat-cancers","title":{"rendered":"Chemically \u2018stapled\u2019 peptides used to target difficult-to-treat cancers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chemically-stapled-peptides-used-to-target-difficult-to-treat-cancers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Bath have developed a new technology that uses bacteria to build, chemically stabilize, and test millions of potential drug molecules inside living cells, making it much quicker and easier to discover new treatments for difficult-to-treat cancers.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists based at the University\u2019s Department of Life Sciences are investigating peptides\u2014short chains of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins\u2014as potential drugs for a family of notoriously \u201cundruggable\u201d cancer drivers known as transcription factors. These proteins act as master switches that control gene activity and are frequently overactive in cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Bath have developed a new technology that uses bacteria to build, chemically stabilize, and test millions of potential drug molecules inside living cells, making it much quicker and easier to discover new treatments for difficult-to-treat cancers. Scientists based at the University\u2019s Department of Life Sciences are investigating peptides\u2014short chains of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232527","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=232527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}