{"id":94685,"date":"2019-08-12T14:22:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T21:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/yale-scientists-zero-in-on-atomic-driver-of-tumor-formation"},"modified":"2019-08-12T14:22:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T21:22:48","slug":"yale-scientists-zero-in-on-atomic-driver-of-tumor-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/yale-scientists-zero-in-on-atomic-driver-of-tumor-formation","title":{"rendered":"Yale scientists zero in on atomic driver of tumor formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/yale-scientists-zero-in-on-atomic-driver-of-tumor-formation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Growing evidence suggests that certain types of bacteria are capable of causing colorectal cancers, indicating that a sub-set of these cancers could be the result of infectious disease.<\/p>\n<p>But understanding how bacteria interact in the human gut \u2013 our microbiome \u2014 has been challenging because of the complex microbial mixture of \u201cgood\u201d and \u201cbad\u201d bacteria.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/yale-scientists-zero-in-on-atomic-driver-of-tumor-formation.jpg\" width=\"330\" height=\"215\" \/>Over a decade ago, French scientists discovered a pathway in certain strains of <em>E. coli<\/em>, a bacterium normally found in 90% of humans, that is \u201cgenotoxic\u201d \u2013 toxic to DNA \u2013 causing tumor formation and colorectal cancer in mice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing evidence suggests that certain types of bacteria are capable of causing colorectal cancers, indicating that a sub-set of these cancers could be the result of infectious disease. But understanding how bacteria interact in the human gut \u2013 our microbiome \u2014 has been challenging because of the complex microbial mixture of \u201cgood\u201d and \u201cbad\u201d bacteria. [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94685","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=94685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}