{"id":33320,"date":"2017-01-09T20:35:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T04:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/researchers-reveal-how-cancer-cells-cope-with-genetic-chaos"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:53:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:53:18","slug":"researchers-reveal-how-cancer-cells-cope-with-genetic-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/researchers-reveal-how-cancer-cells-cope-with-genetic-chaos","title":{"rendered":"Researchers reveal how cancer cells cope with genetic chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-reveal-how-cancer-cells-cope-with-genetic-chaos.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another difference between normal and abnormal cells \u2014 cancer cells can continue to grow despite damage to cell structures and changes in the number of chromosomes.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists have uncovered how tumours are able to grow despite significant damage to the structure and number of their chromosomes \u2014 the storage units of DNA \u2014 according to two new studies published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/cancer-cell\/home\"><em>Cancer Cell<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cancerdiscovery.aacrjournals.org\/\"><em>Cancer Discovery<\/em><\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe hope that understanding these mechanisms will allow us to limit drug resistance and improve the efficacy of cancer therapies.\u201d<\/em> <strong>- Professor Charles Swanton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Healthy cells are programmed to self-destruct if there are mistakes in their genes that can\u2019t be fixed, but cancer cells can carry on growing with these abnormalities. Over time, further genetic changes allow them to keep growing, spread, and become resistant to treatment.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cancerresearchuk.org\/about-us\/cancer-news\/press-release\/2017-01-09-researchers-reveal-how-cancer-cells-cope-with-genetic-chaos-0\">http:\/\/www.cancerresearchuk.org\/about-us\/cancer-news\/press-r...ic-chaos-0<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another difference between normal and abnormal cells \u2014 cancer cells can continue to grow despite damage to cell structures and changes in the number of chromosomes. Scientists have uncovered how tumours are able to grow despite significant damage to the structure and number of their chromosomes \u2014 the storage units of DNA \u2014 according to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33320","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=33320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65403,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33320\/revisions\/65403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}