{"id":93044,"date":"2019-07-02T13:02:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T20:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/math-can-help-uncover-cancers-secrets"},"modified":"2019-07-02T13:02:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T20:02:49","slug":"math-can-help-uncover-cancers-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/math-can-help-uncover-cancers-secrets","title":{"rendered":"Math can help uncover cancer\u2019s secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/math-can-help-uncover-cancers-secrets3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Irina Kareva translates biology into mathematics and vice versa. She writes mathematical models that describe the dynamics of cancer, with the goal of developing new drugs that target tumors. \u201cThe power and beauty of mathematical modeling lies in the fact that it makes you formalize, in a very rigorous way, what we think we know,\u201d Kareva says. \u201cIt can help guide us to where we should keep looking, and where there may be a dead end.\u201d It all comes down to asking the right question and translating it to the right equation, and back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irina Kareva translates biology into mathematics and vice versa. She writes mathematical models that describe the dynamics of cancer, with the goal of developing new drugs that target tumors. \u201cThe power and beauty of mathematical modeling lies in the fact that it makes you formalize, in a very rigorous way, what we think we know,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93044","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}