{"id":77192,"date":"2018-03-27T07:02:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T14:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/newly-discovered-human-organ-may-help-explain-how-cancer-spreads"},"modified":"2018-03-27T07:02:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T14:02:40","slug":"newly-discovered-human-organ-may-help-explain-how-cancer-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/newly-discovered-human-organ-may-help-explain-how-cancer-spreads","title":{"rendered":"Newly-discovered human organ may help explain how cancer spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/newly-discovered-human-organ-may-help-explain-how-cancer-spreads.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Jessica Hamzelou<\/p>\n<p>A newly discovered network of fluid-filled channels in the human body may be a previously-unknown organ, and it seems to help transport cancer cells around the body.<\/p>\n<p>This discovery was made by chance, from routine endoscopies \u2013 a procedure that involves inserting a thin camera into a person\u2019s gastrointestinal tract. Newer approaches enable doctors to use this procedure to get a microscopic look at the tissue inside a person\u2019s gut at the same time, with some surprising results.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2164903-newly-discovered-human-organ-may-help-explain-how-cancer-spreads\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2164903-newly-discovere...r-spreads\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jessica Hamzelou A newly discovered network of fluid-filled channels in the human body may be a previously-unknown organ, and it seems to help transport cancer cells around the body. This discovery was made by chance, from routine endoscopies \u2013 a procedure that involves inserting a thin camera into a person\u2019s gastrointestinal tract. Newer approaches [\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-77192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77192","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=77192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}