{"id":34632,"date":"2017-02-16T23:27:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T07:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/study-finds-targeting-biological-clock-in-cells-slows-cancer"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:50:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:50:51","slug":"study-finds-targeting-biological-clock-in-cells-slows-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/study-finds-targeting-biological-clock-in-cells-slows-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Study finds targeting biological clock in cells slows cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-finds-targeting-biological-clock-in-cells-slows-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nice. My friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/biogerontology\">Alex Zhavoronkov<\/a> will appreciate this article.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Feb. 16 (UPI) \u2014 Researchers at McGill University in Montreal have found that targeting the internal circadian or biological clock of cancer cells can affect growth.<\/p>\n<p>Most cells in the human body have an internal clock that sets a rhythm for activities of organs depending on the time of day. However, this internal clock in cancer cells does not function at all or malfunctions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were indications suggesting that the malfunctioning clock contributed to rapid tumor growth, but this had never been demonstrated,\u201d Nicolas Cermakian, a professor in the department of psychiatry at McGill University, director of the Laboratory of Molecular Chronobiology at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute and author of the study, said in a press release. \u201cThanks to the use of a chemical or a thermic treatment, we succeeded in \u2018repairing\u2019 these cells\u2019 clock and restoring it to its normal functioning. In these conditions, tumor growth drops nearly in half.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Health_News\/2017\/02\/16\/Study-finds-targeting-biological-clock-in-cells-slows-cancer\/4891487269991\/\">http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Health_News\/2017\/02\/16\/Study-finds-target...487269991\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice. My friend Alex Zhavoronkov will appreciate this article. Feb. 16 (UPI) \u2014 Researchers at McGill University in Montreal have found that targeting the internal circadian or biological clock of cancer cells can affect growth. Most cells in the human body have an internal clock that sets a rhythm for activities of organs depending on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34632","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=34632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48831,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34632\/revisions\/48831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}