{"id":32338,"date":"2016-12-01T12:18:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T20:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/building-genetic-circuits-in-cells-could-kill-tumors"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:01:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:01:05","slug":"building-genetic-circuits-in-cells-could-kill-tumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/building-genetic-circuits-in-cells-could-kill-tumors","title":{"rendered":"Building \u201cgenetic circuits\u201d in cells could kill tumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/building-genetic-circuits-in-cells-could-kill-tumors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More on the cell circuited technology that will deprive cancer cells of oxygen.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Imagine having cells in your body that can actively repel cancer in a way that makes it theoretically impossible for you to suffer from it.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the U.K.\u2019s University of Southampton\u2026have engineered cells with a so-called \u201cbuilt-in genetic circuit\u201d capable of producing a molecule for inhibiting the ability of tumors to grow and survive in the body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are various defense mechanisms built into human cells, such as proteins that spot DNA damage, but there are also gaps in this defense system that are exploited by disease,\u201d <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/chemistry\/about\/staff\/ali1.page\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Ali Tavassoli<\/a>, one of the lead authors of the <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1021\/acssynbio.6b00219\" target=\"_blank\">paper <\/a>\u2026\u201cWe were wondering if it is possible to equip human cells with the ability to sense and respond to a disease marker\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geneticliteracyproject.org\/2016\/12\/01\/building-genetic-circuits-cells-kill-tumors-depriving-oxygen\/\">https:\/\/www.geneticliteracyproject.org\/2016\/12\/01\/building-g...ng-oxygen\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More on the cell circuited technology that will deprive cancer cells of oxygen. Imagine having cells in your body that can actively repel cancer in a way that makes it theoretically impossible for you to suffer from it. Researchers at the U.K.\u2019s University of Southampton\u2026have engineered cells with a so-called \u201cbuilt-in genetic circuit\u201d capable of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32338","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59600,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32338\/revisions\/59600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}