{"id":26105,"date":"2016-05-27T14:31:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T21:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/triggering-the-protein-that-programs-cancer-cells-to-kill-themselves"},"modified":"2016-05-27T14:31:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T21:31:33","slug":"triggering-the-protein-that-programs-cancer-cells-to-kill-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/triggering-the-protein-that-programs-cancer-cells-to-kill-themselves","title":{"rendered":"Triggering the protein that programs cancer cells to kill themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DR80Huxp4y8\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe> <em>WEHI | Apoptosis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wehi.edu.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Walter and Eliza Hall Institute<\/a> in Australia have discovered a new way to trigger cell death that could lead to drugs to treat cancer and autoimmune disease.<\/p>\n<p>Programmed cell death (a.k.a. apoptosis) is a natural process that removes unwanted cells from the body. Failure of apoptosis can allow cancer cells to grow unchecked or immune cells to inappropriately attack the body.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/triggering-the-protein-that-programs-cancer-cells-to-kill-themselves\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/triggering-the-protein-that-progra...themselves<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEHI | Apoptosis Researchers at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Australia have discovered a new way to trigger cell death that could lead to drugs to treat cancer and autoimmune disease. Programmed cell death (a.k.a. apoptosis) is a natural process that removes unwanted cells from the body. Failure of apoptosis can allow cancer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26105","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}