{"id":93806,"date":"2019-07-17T14:42:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T21:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/machine-learning-identifies-potential-anti-cancer-molecules-in-food"},"modified":"2019-07-17T14:42:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T21:42:42","slug":"machine-learning-identifies-potential-anti-cancer-molecules-in-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/machine-learning-identifies-potential-anti-cancer-molecules-in-food","title":{"rendered":"Machine Learning Identifies Potential Anti-Cancer Molecules in Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/machine-learning-identifies-potential-anti-cancer-molecules-in-food.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The internet is rife with myths and articles making dubious claims about certain foods and their anti-cancer properties. We have all seen the articles of questionable scientific merit gracing social media suggesting that such-and-such foods can cure cancer, the majority of which are highly questionable. A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-019-45349-y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> offers a unique kind of insight into the potential true effectiveness of food in fighting cancer [1].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Investigating molecules in food with machine learning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is no doubt that there are many foods that contain a myriad of active molecules, and perhaps some of these food myths may have a grain of truth to them. A team of researchers decided to do some real myth-busting and put a variety of bioactive molecules found in foods to the test to see if they might potentially help to combat cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet is rife with myths and articles making dubious claims about certain foods and their anti-cancer properties. We have all seen the articles of questionable scientific merit gracing social media suggesting that such-and-such foods can cure cancer, the majority of which are highly questionable. A new study offers a unique kind of insight into [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93806","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}