{"id":169414,"date":"2023-08-10T10:24:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T15:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/tiny-antibodies-hold-big-promise-for-cancer-treatment"},"modified":"2023-08-10T10:24:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T15:24:54","slug":"tiny-antibodies-hold-big-promise-for-cancer-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/tiny-antibodies-hold-big-promise-for-cancer-treatment","title":{"rendered":"Tiny antibodies hold big promise for cancer treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-antibodies-hold-big-promise-for-cancer-treatment3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using antibodies derived from alpacas, a University of Kentucky research team has developed a tool that could lead to new therapies to stop the growth of several types of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cancer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cancer<\/a> researchers have known that a protein called PRL-3 is linked to the growth of colon, breast, lung, skin and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/blood+cancers\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">blood cancers<\/a>, there is little understanding about how it works due to a lack of tools to study it effectively.<\/p>\n<p>With unique alpaca antibodies known as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nanobodies\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nanobodies<\/a>, the team led by UK Markey Cancer Center researcher Jessica Blackburn, Ph.D., developed the first effective tool to specifically target PRL-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using antibodies derived from alpacas, a University of Kentucky research team has developed a tool that could lead to new therapies to stop the growth of several types of cancer. While cancer researchers have known that a protein called PRL-3 is linked to the growth of colon, breast, lung, skin and blood cancers, there is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169414","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}