{"id":163441,"date":"2023-05-06T11:22:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T16:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/a-newly-developed-hydrogel-can-wipe-out-brain-cancer-in-mice"},"modified":"2023-05-06T11:22:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T16:22:58","slug":"a-newly-developed-hydrogel-can-wipe-out-brain-cancer-in-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/a-newly-developed-hydrogel-can-wipe-out-brain-cancer-in-mice","title":{"rendered":"A Newly Developed Hydrogel Can Wipe Out Brain Cancer in Mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A6sYjWn_syU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glioblastoma\">Glioblastoma<\/a> is one of the most common and aggressive forms of brain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/cancer\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">cancer<\/a>, and it\u2019s one of the hardest to treat. There may be good news on the horizon, however.<\/p>\n<p>A newly developed hydrogel, tested on mice, cleaned up traces of glioblastoma tumors and stopped them from returning. The hydrogel was so effective that there was a \u201cstriking\u201d 100 percent survival rate in the animals.<\/p>\n<p>Although we can\u2019t be sure that the same treatments will achieve that level of success in humans, it\u2019s a hugely promising new approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glioblastoma is one of the most common and aggressive forms of brain cancer, and it\u2019s one of the hardest to treat. There may be good news on the horizon, however. A newly developed hydrogel, tested on mice, cleaned up traces of glioblastoma tumors and stopped them from returning. The hydrogel was so effective that there [\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-163441","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\/163441","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=163441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}