{"id":2545,"date":"2015-10-20T16:51:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T20:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cancerawarenessnews.com\/?p=2545"},"modified":"2015-10-20T16:51:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T20:51:20","slug":"surprising-news-mayo-clinic-researchers-have-found-a-way-to-reprogram-cancer-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cancerawarenessnews.com\/surprising-news-mayo-clinic-researchers-have-found-a-way-to-reprogram-cancer-cells\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprising news : Mayo Clinic Researchers Have Found A Way To Reprogram Cancer Cells!"},"content":{"rendered":"

VIDEO: Mayo Clinic Researchers Find New Code. Watch video below to know details<\/h3>\n

A study published in Nature Cell Biology has revealed an incredible new breakthrough: cancer cells in the lab can be turned back into normal cells.<\/p>\n

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A study published in Nature Cell Biology has revealed an incredible new breakthrough: cancer cells in the lab can be turned back into normal cells.<\/p>\n

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VIDEO: Mayo Clinic Researchers Find New Code. Watch video below to know details<\/h3>\n

It has to do with a molecule called microRNA, and the protein it triggers: PLEKHA7. MicroRNA are responsible for telling cells to stop dividing, and the protein PLEKHA7 does their bidding and breaks cell bonds \u2014 thereby prohibiting the cells from dividing continually and turning cancerous.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we have identified two key components,\u201d says Panos Anastasiadis, Ph.D., chair of Mayo Clinic\u2019s Department of Cancer Biology in Jacksonville, Florida. \u201cOne seems to be\u2026driving tumor progression and growth; and the other that is acting as a brake, that\u2019s basically inhibiting it. We have also looked at human tumor samples, and we have found that the brake is missing in the vast majority of these cancers. So what we see in cancer patients is that we have a lot of the gas, but we have no brake.\u201d
\nUntil now, that is.<\/p>\n

They found that cancer cells that have insufficient microRNA levels or are missing the protein PLEKHA7 can have those levels restored \u2014 and in turn, be turned back into a normal cell.
\nResearchers in the lab discovered that they can turn normal cells cancerous by removing the microRNAs. So then they tried reversing the process by adding microRNAs directly into to cancerous cells that were missing it. The result? The cells stopped dividing.<\/p>\n

So far they\u2019ve had promising results in the lab on aggressive types of breast, lung, and bladder cancer cells. Incredibly, this discovery may make treatment staples like chemotherapy a thing of the past! Researchers also think this may make it easier to diagnose tumor biopsies as either malignant or benign.<\/p>\n

Hear more about this astounding breakthrough in this video!<\/strong><\/p>\n