{"id":1310,"date":"2022-10-26T14:29:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T21:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2025-08-04T15:12:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T22:12:25","slug":"fungi-and-cancerous-tumours-california-scientists-uncover-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/?p=1310","title":{"rendered":"Fungi and cancerous tumours: California scientists uncover association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2022\/10\/05\/fungi-and-cancerous-tumours-california-scientists-uncover-association\/\">Scientists have uncovered an association between tumours and fungi, which may lead to a deeper understanding towards the biology of certain cancers.\u00a0\u00a0An international research initiative identified 35 types of cancer that carry traces of fungi lurking in various mutations of tumours \u2013 namely, those that originate in breasts, the colon, the pancreas and lungs.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have uncovered an association between tumours and fungi, which may lead to a deeper understanding towards the biology of certain cancers.\u00a0\u00a0An international research initiative identified 35 types of cancer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1658,"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions\/1658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}