{"id":81780,"date":"2018-08-16T17:42:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T00:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/how-cancer-cells-communicate-and-how-we-can-slow-them-down"},"modified":"2018-08-26T18:52:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T01:52:54","slug":"how-cancer-cells-communicate-and-how-we-can-slow-them-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/how-cancer-cells-communicate-and-how-we-can-slow-them-down","title":{"rendered":"How cancer cells communicate \u2014 and how we can slow them down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-cancer-cells-communicate-and-how-we-can-slow-them-down2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When cancer cells are closely packed together in a tumor, they\u2019re able to communicate with each other and coordinate their movement throughout the body. What if we could interrupt this process? In this accessible talk about cutting-edge science, Hasini Jayatilaka shares her work on an innovative method to stop cancer cells from communicating \u2014 and halt their fatal ability to spread.<\/p>\n<p>This talk was presented at an official TED conference, and was featured by our editors on the home page.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/hasini_jayatilaka_how_cancer_cells_communicate_and_how_we_can_slow_them_down\/up-next\">https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/hasini_jayatilaka_how_cancer_cells...wn\/up-next<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When cancer cells are closely packed together in a tumor, they\u2019re able to communicate with each other and coordinate their movement throughout the body. What if we could interrupt this process? In this accessible talk about cutting-edge science, Hasini Jayatilaka shares her work on an innovative method to stop cancer cells from communicating \u2014 and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81780","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82093,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81780\/revisions\/82093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}