{"id":153419,"date":"2022-12-22T13:26:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T19:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/scientists-break-new-ground-in-cancer-fight-by-reinvigorating-t-cells"},"modified":"2022-12-22T13:26:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T19:26:03","slug":"scientists-break-new-ground-in-cancer-fight-by-reinvigorating-t-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/scientists-break-new-ground-in-cancer-fight-by-reinvigorating-t-cells","title":{"rendered":"Scientists break new ground in cancer fight by \u2018reinvigorating\u2019 T cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-break-new-ground-in-cancer-fight-by-reinvigorating-t-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study develops \u2018environment-modulating\u2019 drugs that reinvigorate T-cells to once again destroy cancer cells.<\/p>\n<p>T-cells, typically thought to be anti-cancer, can switch sides and work against us in the right environment (or battlefield!), according to a new study published on December 21 in Nature.<\/p>\n<p>This discovery is unexpected because many extensive studies before this believed that most worn-out T-cells\u2019 properties were \u201cirreversible.\u201d Simply put, they were doomed to being subpar tumor killers.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Meletios Verras\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>In light of this, the study went a step further by proving that altering the local environment around the tumor could \u201creinvigorate\u201d T-cells to once again destroy cancer cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study develops \u2018environment-modulating\u2019 drugs that reinvigorate T-cells to once again destroy cancer cells. T-cells, typically thought to be anti-cancer, can switch sides and work against us in the right environment (or battlefield!), according to a new study published on December 21 in Nature. This discovery is unexpected because many extensive studies before this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153419","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}