{"id":149317,"date":"2022-11-02T07:22:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T12:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/new-research-rethinks-the-blood-tumor-barrier-and-identifies-novel-path-to-brain-cancer-treatment"},"modified":"2022-11-02T07:22:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T12:22:22","slug":"new-research-rethinks-the-blood-tumor-barrier-and-identifies-novel-path-to-brain-cancer-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/new-research-rethinks-the-blood-tumor-barrier-and-identifies-novel-path-to-brain-cancer-treatment","title":{"rendered":"New research rethinks the blood-tumor barrier and identifies novel path to brain cancer treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-rethinks-the-blood-tumor-barrier-and-identifies-novel-path-to-brain-cancer-treatment.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a new study, scientists have uncovered the mechanics of the blood-tumor barrier, one of the most significant obstacles to improving treatment efficacy and preventing the return of cancerous cells. The research team, led by Dr. Xi Huang, a Senior Scientist in Developmental &amp; Stem Cell Biology program at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), lays the foundation for more effectively treating medulloblastoma, the most common malignant pediatric brain tumor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite decades of research on brain cancer, the mechanisms that govern the formation and function of the blood-tumor barrier have remained poorly understood,\u201d says Huang, who is also a Principal Investigator at the Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumor Research Center and Canada Research Chair in Cancer Biophysics. \u201cOur discoveries represent a breakthrough in the understanding of how the blood-tumor barrier forms and works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published today in <i>Neuron<\/i>, the research team identifies a way to reduce the impact of the blood-tumor barrier on medulloblastoma treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new study, scientists have uncovered the mechanics of the blood-tumor barrier, one of the most significant obstacles to improving treatment efficacy and preventing the return of cancerous cells. The research team, led by Dr. Xi Huang, a Senior Scientist in Developmental &amp; Stem Cell Biology program at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), [\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-149317","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\/149317","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=149317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}