{"id":98867,"date":"2019-11-21T02:02:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T10:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/doughnut-shaped-dna-makes-cancer-more-aggressive"},"modified":"2019-11-21T02:02:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T10:02:35","slug":"doughnut-shaped-dna-makes-cancer-more-aggressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/doughnut-shaped-dna-makes-cancer-more-aggressive","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Doughnut-Shaped\u2019 DNA Makes Cancer More Aggressive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/doughnut-shaped-dna-makes-cancer-more-aggressive.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cancer cells may owe some of their destructive nature to unique, \u201cdoughnut-shaped\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/37247-dna.html\">DNA<\/a>, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published today (Nov. 20) in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-019-1763-5\">Nature<\/a>, found that, in some cancer cells, DNA doesn\u2019t pack into thread-like structures like it does in healthy cells \u2014 rather, the genetic material folds into a ring-like shape that makes the cancer more aggressive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cancer cells may owe some of their destructive nature to unique, \u201cdoughnut-shaped\u201d DNA, according to a new study. The study, published today (Nov. 20) in the journal Nature, found that, in some cancer cells, DNA doesn\u2019t pack into thread-like structures like it does in healthy cells \u2014 rather, the genetic material folds into a ring-like [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98867","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\/98867","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=98867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}