{"id":129402,"date":"2022-06-29T10:46:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T14:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129402///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129402//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129402//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129402//?p=129402"},"modified":"2023-01-09T12:01:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T17:01:24","slug":"ucf-researchers-develop-liquid-biopsy-technique-to-help-detect-cancer-in-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129402///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129402//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129402//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129402//ucf-researchers-develop-liquid-biopsy-technique-to-help-detect-cancer-in-blood/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129402//","title":{"rendered":"Âé¶¹Ó³»­´«Ã½ Researchers Develop Liquid Biopsy Technique to Help Detect Cancer in Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"

College of Medicine researchers have found a new way to track metastatic cancer cells in the body, which in the future could help identify cancer earlier and give patients more treatment options./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129402/n

In the latest issue of PLOS ONE, Professor Annette Khaled/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129402/u2019s research lab reported using a protein complex called a chaperonin as a new marker for cancer cells in blood /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129402/u2014 that provides a clearer indication of spreading cancer. By using the new marker, Âé¶¹Ó³»­´«Ã½ scientists were able to detect more cancer cells in the blood, a procedure called liquid biopsy, which could help patients suffering from breast and lung cancers better monitor their disease./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129402/n

Cancer cells need a lot of proteins to survive and travel through the body. The chaperonin complex lets proteins fold into functional, three-dimensional shapes. Without the complex, important proteins needed by cancer cells can/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129402/u2019t form. All cells contain the chaperonin complex. But cancer cells have significantly higher levels because as Khaled says, /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129402/u201ccancer cells are hungry for protein./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129402/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129402/n

In the past few years, Khaled identified the chaperonin complex as a significant indicator of a cancer/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129402/u2019s severity and has developed nanoparticle-based therapies to seek out the chaperonin complex in cancer cells and destroy it. Without this protein-folding mechanism, cancer cells starve and die./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129402/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129402/u201cThe more chaperonin complex, the more advanced the cancer,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129402/u201d Khaled says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129402/u201cBy using the chaperonin complex to detect cancer cells in blood, we get a warning that the cancer may be spreading. Using the chaperonin complex to detect cancer cells in blood is a unique solution for a non-invasive diagnosis./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129402/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/129402/n