{"id":86219,"date":"2018-12-29T02:42:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T10:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/australian-researchers-have-developed-a-test-that-can-detect-cancer-cells-in-10-minutes"},"modified":"2018-12-29T02:42:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T10:42:13","slug":"australian-researchers-have-developed-a-test-that-can-detect-cancer-cells-in-10-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/australian-researchers-have-developed-a-test-that-can-detect-cancer-cells-in-10-minutes","title":{"rendered":"Australian researchers have developed a test that can detect cancer cells in 10 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/australian-researchers-have-developed-a-test-that-can-detect-cancer-cells-in-10-minutes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A quick and easy test devised by scientists from the University of Queensland could transform cancer diagnosis as we know it.<\/p>\n<p>Cancer is a difficult disease to diagnose because different types are characterised by different signatures. Until now, scientists have been unable to find a unique signature common to all forms of cancer that would set it apart from healthy cells.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what University of Queensland researchers Dr Laura Carrascosa, Dr Abu Sina and Professor Matt Trau have addressed. They have discovered a unique DNA nanostructure that seems to be common to all types of cancer and is visible when cancer cells are placed in water.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techly.com.au\/2018\/12\/29\/australian-researchers-developed-test-can-detect-cancer-cells-10-minutes\/\">https:\/\/www.techly.com.au\/2018\/12\/29\/australian-researchers-...0-minutes\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick and easy test devised by scientists from the University of Queensland could transform cancer diagnosis as we know it. Cancer is a difficult disease to diagnose because different types are characterised by different signatures. Until now, scientists have been unable to find a unique signature common to all forms of cancer that would [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86219","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=86219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}