{"id":34477,"date":"2017-02-12T15:23:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T23:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/cell-death-might-be-reversible-and-scientists-are-trying-to-find-out-why"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:31:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:31:21","slug":"cell-death-might-be-reversible-and-scientists-are-trying-to-find-out-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/cell-death-might-be-reversible-and-scientists-are-trying-to-find-out-why","title":{"rendered":"Cell Death Might Be Reversible, and Scientists Are Trying to Find Out Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cell-death-might-be-reversible-and-scientists-are-trying-to-find-out-why.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class='server-side-image' src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cell-death-might-be-reversible-and-scientists-are-trying-to-find-out-why.jpeg\"\/> It tells us something important about cancer.<\/p>\n<p>A mysterious cell process named <a href=\"https:\/\/labs.mcdb.ucsb.edu\/montell\/denise\/research\/cell-survival-anastasis\" target=\"_blank\">anastasis<\/a> (Greek for \u201crising to life\u201d) challenges our idea of life being a linear march towards death, and suggests that cell death can actually be reversed under certain conditions\u2014essentially allowing cells to un-die.<\/p>\n<p>Even as the cell is shrivelling up in response to radiation, toxins, or other stresses, it can in some cases undo the dying process and repair itself if the stress is taken away before the cell is completely gone, said cell biologist <a href=\"https:\/\/labs.mcdb.ucsb.edu\/montell\/denise\/\" target=\"_blank\">Denise Montell<\/a> of the University of California, Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/cell-death-might-be-reversible-and-scientists-are-trying-to-find-out-why\">https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/cell-death-might-be-rever...nd-out-why<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It tells us something important about cancer. A mysterious cell process named anastasis (Greek for \u201crising to life\u201d) challenges our idea of life being a linear march towards death, and suggests that cell death can actually be reversed under certain conditions\u2014essentially allowing cells to un-die. Even as the cell is shrivelling up in response to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34477","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58757,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34477\/revisions\/58757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}