{"id":90765,"date":"2019-05-15T13:03:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T20:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/blood-biopsy-new-technique-enables-detailed-genetic-analysis-of-cancer-cells"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:03:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T20:03:21","slug":"blood-biopsy-new-technique-enables-detailed-genetic-analysis-of-cancer-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/blood-biopsy-new-technique-enables-detailed-genetic-analysis-of-cancer-cells","title":{"rendered":"Blood biopsy: New technique enables detailed genetic analysis of cancer cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blood-biopsy-new-technique-enables-detailed-genetic-analysis-of-cancer-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new way to cleanly separate out cancer cells from a blood sample enables comprehensive genetic profiling of the cancer cells, which could help doctors target tumors and monitor treatments more effectively.<\/p>\n<p>It is a dramatic improvement over current approaches because it also encompasses the variation among <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cancer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cancer<\/a> cells within a single patient.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis could be a whole different ball game,\u201d said Max Wicha, the Madeline and Sidney Forbes Professor of Oncology at the University of Michigan and senior physician on the study in Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019-05-blood-biopsy-technique-enables-genetic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new way to cleanly separate out cancer cells from a blood sample enables comprehensive genetic profiling of the cancer cells, which could help doctors target tumors and monitor treatments more effectively. It is a dramatic improvement over current approaches because it also encompasses the variation among cancer cells within a single patient. \u201cThis could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90765","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}