{"id":2724,"date":"2024-07-03T19:41:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T19:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/bowel-cancer-turns-genetic-switches-on-and-off-to-outwit-the-immune-system-new-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:41:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T19:41:49","slug":"bowel-cancer-turns-genetic-switches-on-and-off-to-outwit-the-immune-system-new-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/bowel-cancer-turns-genetic-switches-on-and-off-to-outwit-the-immune-system-new-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowel cancer turns genetic switches on and off to outwit the immune system, new study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frameshift switching of the MSH6 C8 coding homopolymer drives stochastic loss and restoration of MSH6 expression like a molecular ON\/OFF switch. Credit: Nature Genetics (2024). DOI: 10.1038\/s41588-024-01777-9 Bowel cancer cells have the ability to regulate their growth using a genetic on-off switch to maximize their chances of survival, a phenomenon that&#8217;s been observed for the first time by researchers at UCL and University Medical Center Utrecht. The number of genetic mutations in a cancer cell was previously thought to be purely down to chance. But a new study, published in <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/bowel-cancer-turns-genetic-switches-on-and-off-to-outwit-the-immune-system-new-study-finds\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frameshift switching of the MSH6 C8 coding homopolymer drives stochastic loss and restoration of MSH6 expression like a molecular ON\/OFF switch. Credit: Nature Genetics (2024). DOI: 10.1038\/s41588-024-01777-9 Bowel cancer cells have the ability to regulate their growth using a genetic on-off switch to maximize their chances of survival, a phenomenon that&#8217;s been observed for the [&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-2724","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\/2724","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=2724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}