{"id":244470,"date":"2026-09-25T01:04:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T06:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/biologists-identify-a-cellular-pathway-that-allows-colorectal-cancer-to-metastasize"},"modified":"2026-09-25T01:04:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T06:04:53","slug":"biologists-identify-a-cellular-pathway-that-allows-colorectal-cancer-to-metastasize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/biologists-identify-a-cellular-pathway-that-allows-colorectal-cancer-to-metastasize","title":{"rendered":"Biologists identify a cellular pathway that allows colorectal cancer to metastasize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biologists-identify-a-cellular-pathway-that-allows-colorectal-cancer-to-metastasize2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MIT biologists found that a high-fat diet drives colon cancer cells to switch on YAP1, a regenerative program required for the cancer to spread to the liver. Drugs blocking ceramide production could help prevent metastasis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT biologists found that a high-fat diet drives colon cancer cells to switch on YAP1, a regenerative program required for the cancer to spread to the liver. Drugs blocking ceramide production could help prevent metastasis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244470","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}