{"id":102339,"date":"2020-02-13T17:12:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T01:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/scientists-find-ally-in-fight-against-brain-tumors-ebola"},"modified":"2020-02-13T17:12:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T01:12:29","slug":"scientists-find-ally-in-fight-against-brain-tumors-ebola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/scientists-find-ally-in-fight-against-brain-tumors-ebola","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find ally in fight against brain tumors: Ebola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-ally-in-fight-against-brain-tumors-ebola.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Glioblastomas are relentless, hard-to-treat, and often lethal brain tumors. Yale scientists have enlisted a most unlikely ally in efforts to treat this form of cancer \u2014 elements of the Ebola virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe irony is that one of the world\u2019s deadliest viruses may be useful in treating one of the deadliest of brain cancers,\u201d said Yale\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.yale.edu\/profile\/anthony_vandenpol\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Anthony van den Pol<\/a>, professor of neurosurgery, who <a href=\"https:\/\/jvi.asm.org\/content\/early\/2020\/02\/06\/JVI.01967-19\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">describes the Yale efforts Feb. 12 in the Journal of Virology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The approach takes advantage of a weakness in most cancer tumors and also of an Ebola defense against the immune system response to pathogens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glioblastomas are relentless, hard-to-treat, and often lethal brain tumors. Yale scientists have enlisted a most unlikely ally in efforts to treat this form of cancer \u2014 elements of the Ebola virus. \u201cThe irony is that one of the world\u2019s deadliest viruses may be useful in treating one of the deadliest of brain cancers,\u201d said Yale\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}