{"id":75890,"date":"2018-02-11T16:02:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T00:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/researchers-crack-secret-code-to-genetic-changes-causing-our-cancer"},"modified":"2018-02-11T16:02:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T00:02:27","slug":"researchers-crack-secret-code-to-genetic-changes-causing-our-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/researchers-crack-secret-code-to-genetic-changes-causing-our-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Researchers crack secret code to genetic changes causing our cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-crack-secret-code-to-genetic-changes-causing-our-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Summary: Researchers at the University of California discovered a key way that cancer manipulates the genetic code using DNA methylation that has important implications for the treatment of cancers. [<a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/genetic-epigenetic-changes-dna-methylation-cancer\/\">This article<\/a> first appeared on the <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/about\/\">website <a href=\"http:\/\/LongevityFacts.com\">LongevityFacts.com<\/a><\/a>. Author: <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+BCHartman\">Brady Hartman.<\/a> ]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Up until now, scientists haven\u2019t fully understood how DNA methylation causes changes in our genetic code that enable cancer to thrive.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a team led by associate professor Jikui Song at the University of California Riverside have deciphered the crystal structure of an enzyme that plays a crucial role in DNA methylation that allows tumors to survive and grow.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/genetic-epigenetic-changes-dna-methylation-cancer\/\">http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/genetic-epigenetic-changes-dna-methylation-cancer\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Researchers at the University of California discovered a key way that cancer manipulates the genetic code using DNA methylation that has important implications for the treatment of cancers. [This article first appeared on the website LongevityFacts.com. Author: Brady Hartman. ] Up until now, scientists haven\u2019t fully understood how DNA methylation causes changes in our [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75890","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\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}