{"id":245520,"date":"2026-10-16T21:12:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T02:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/a-protein-that-fuels-cancer-could-also-be-the-key-to-fighting-it"},"modified":"2026-10-16T21:12:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T02:12:24","slug":"a-protein-that-fuels-cancer-could-also-be-the-key-to-fighting-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/a-protein-that-fuels-cancer-could-also-be-the-key-to-fighting-it","title":{"rendered":"A protein that fuels cancer could also be the key to fighting it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-protein-that-fuels-cancer-could-also-be-the-key-to-fighting-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The findings, published in <em>Nature Immunology<\/em>, could be especially important for colorectal cancer, which has become the leading cause of cancer-related death among people under 50. Many patients with difficult-to-treat forms of the disease have limited options, particularly when chemotherapy and newer immunotherapy treatments fail. The research suggests that a protein normally associated with cancer growth could instead become a powerful cancer-fighting \u201cforce\u201d when activated in the right cells.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Turning a Cancer-Promoting Protein Into an Immune System Weapon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have long understood that a patient\u2019s physical fitness can influence their ability to withstand illness. But CSHL Assistant Professor Semir Beyaz is exploring a different kind of fitness: the metabolic health and performance of individual cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The findings, published in Nature Immunology, could be especially important for colorectal cancer, which has become the leading cause of cancer-related death among people under 50. Many patients with difficult-to-treat forms of the disease have limited options, particularly when chemotherapy and newer immunotherapy treatments fail. The research suggests that a protein normally associated with cancer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245520","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=245520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}