{"id":245742,"date":"2026-10-21T05:09:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T10:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/scientists-discover-a-trigger-for-cancer-cells-self-destruction"},"modified":"2026-10-21T05:09:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T10:09:55","slug":"scientists-discover-a-trigger-for-cancer-cells-self-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/scientists-discover-a-trigger-for-cancer-cells-self-destruction","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover a trigger for cancer cells\u2019 self-destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-a-trigger-for-cancer-cells-self-destruction.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have found that when cancer cells are compressed or tightly confined, they begin a process that results in their self destruction.<\/p>\n<p>Experts at Fudan University, Sun Yat-sen University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai used three dimensional models to uncover how cancer cells responded when mechanically confined for prolonged periods of time.<\/p>\n<p>They saw that the cells, when trapped in tight spaces, underwent a kind of chronic stress response that affected their metastatic behavior \u2014 which enables them to spread \u2014 and resulted in cell death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have found that when cancer cells are compressed or tightly confined, they begin a process that results in their self destruction. Experts at Fudan University, Sun Yat-sen University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai used three dimensional models to uncover how cancer cells responded when mechanically confined for prolonged periods of time. [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245742","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=245742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}