{"id":6684,"date":"2019-04-16T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6684"},"modified":"2019-06-10T17:56:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T21:56:45","slug":"scientists-reverse-engineer-brain-cancer-cells-to-find-new-treatment-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/scientists-reverse-engineer-brain-cancer-cells-to-find-new-treatment-targets\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists &#8216;reverse engineer&#8217; brain-cancer cells to find new treatment targets <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.celrep.2019.03.047%C2%A0\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Cell Reports<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Published\u00a0April 16, 2019 | 11:00 EDT<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/emb_releases\/2019-04\/uot--se041019.php\" target=\"_blank\">News release<\/a> from University of Toronto)<br \/>\nGlioblastoma is one of the most devastating forms of cancer, with few existing treatment options. It is also a leading cause of cancer-related death in children and young adults. Scientists have reverse engineered\u00a0brain cancer stem cells gene by gene, uncovering multiple potential targets for this hard-to-treat cancer. This is the first published study to systematically profile a large panel of patient-derived brain tumour cells that have stem cell properties.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corresponding authors: <\/strong>Peter Dirks, SickKids &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:peter.dirks@sickkids.ca\" target=\"_blank\">peter.dirks@sickkids.ca<\/a>; St\u00e9phane Angers, University of Toronto &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:Stephane.Angers@utoronto.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Stephane.Angers@utoronto.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cell Reports Published\u00a0April 16, 2019 | 11:00 EDT (News release from University of Toronto) Glioblastoma is one of the most devastating forms of cancer, with few existing treatment options. It is also a leading cause of cancer-related death in children and young adults. Scientists have reverse engineered\u00a0brain cancer stem cells gene by gene, uncovering multiple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327,3259,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-heads-up","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1JO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6690,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6684\/revisions\/6690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}