{"id":2054,"date":"2024-06-24T23:40:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T23:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/study-reveals-same-genes-that-can-drive-cancer-also-guide-neural-circuit-growth\/"},"modified":"2024-06-24T23:40:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T23:40:22","slug":"study-reveals-same-genes-that-can-drive-cancer-also-guide-neural-circuit-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/study-reveals-same-genes-that-can-drive-cancer-also-guide-neural-circuit-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Study reveals same genes that can drive cancer also guide neural-circuit growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The faint blobs above the bright blobs are axonal growth cones, structures that guide axons to their targets in the nervous system. When src-1 is gone (pictured above), the growth cones are large and cannot focus where they are going. Credit: Snehal Mahadik Many people are familiar with oncogenes\u2014genes long known to be involved in cancers in humans, such as the gene Src. What&#8217;s less widely understood is that oncogenes didn&#8217;t evolve just to cause cancer in species, but rather to control events of normal growth and differentiation. &#8220;As an <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/study-reveals-same-genes-that-can-drive-cancer-also-guide-neural-circuit-growth\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The faint blobs above the bright blobs are axonal growth cones, structures that guide axons to their targets in the nervous system. When src-1 is gone (pictured above), the growth cones are large and cannot focus where they are going. Credit: Snehal Mahadik Many people are familiar with oncogenes\u2014genes long known to be involved in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}