{"id":235915,"date":"2026-04-25T14:09:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T19:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/weird-rings-of-dna-fuel-cancers-this-scientist-leads-the-effort-to-target-them"},"modified":"2026-04-25T14:09:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T19:09:27","slug":"weird-rings-of-dna-fuel-cancers-this-scientist-leads-the-effort-to-target-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/weird-rings-of-dna-fuel-cancers-this-scientist-leads-the-effort-to-target-them","title":{"rendered":"Weird rings of DNA fuel cancers. This scientist leads the effort to target them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/weird-rings-of-dna-fuel-cancers-this-scientist-leads-the-effort-to-target-them3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientist Paul Mischel is championing the importance of odd rings of DNA in tumors\u2014and their promise as targets for cancer therapy.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more on DNADay.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Paul Mischel and others are testing therapies for rogue genetic loops that drive tumor evolution and growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientist Paul Mischel is championing the importance of odd rings of DNA in tumors\u2014and their promise as targets for cancer therapy. Learn more on DNADay. Paul Mischel and others are testing therapies for rogue genetic loops that drive tumor evolution and growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235915","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=235915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}