{"id":73434,"date":"2017-10-23T17:02:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T00:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/suicide-molecules-kill-any-cancer-cell"},"modified":"2017-10-23T17:02:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T00:02:33","slug":"suicide-molecules-kill-any-cancer-cell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/suicide-molecules-kill-any-cancer-cell","title":{"rendered":"Suicide molecules kill any cancer cell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/suicide-molecules-kill-any-cancer-cell.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO \u2014 Small RNA molecules originally developed as a tool to study gene function trigger a mechanism hidden in every cell that forces the cell to commit suicide, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study, the first to identify molecules to trigger a fail-safe mechanism that may protect us from cancer.<\/p>\n<p>The mechanism \u2014 RNA suicide molecules \u2014 can potentially be developed into a novel form of cancer therapy, the study authors said.<\/p>\n<p>Cancer cells treated with the RNA molecules never become resistant to them because they simultaneously eliminate multiple genes that cancer cells need for survival.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.northwestern.edu\/stories\/2017\/october\/suicide-molecules-kill-any-cancer-cell\/\">https:\/\/news.northwestern.edu\/stories\/2017\/october\/suicide-m...ncer-cell\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2014 Small RNA molecules originally developed as a tool to study gene function trigger a mechanism hidden in every cell that forces the cell to commit suicide, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study, the first to identify molecules to trigger a fail-safe mechanism that may protect us from cancer. The mechanism \u2014 RNA suicide [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73434","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}