{"id":175363,"date":"2023-11-03T17:24:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T22:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/natural-killer-cells-now-have-a-better-shot-at-destroying-cancer"},"modified":"2023-11-03T17:24:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T22:24:23","slug":"natural-killer-cells-now-have-a-better-shot-at-destroying-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/natural-killer-cells-now-have-a-better-shot-at-destroying-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Natural killer cells now have a better shot at destroying cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/natural-killer-cells-now-have-a-better-shot-at-destroying-cancer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in South Korea developed a technique for encapsulating NK cells in a hydrogel that could be 3D printed into a porous shape and later implanted at the site of a removed tumor.\u2060.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A new 3D-printing-based approach could unleash a cutting-edge immunotherapy against solid tumors, which account for 90% of all cancers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Natural killers: <\/strong>Some immune system cells only know to attack a threat if they\u2019ve encountered it at least once before (or been instructed to attack it by other cells that have). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/health\/natural-killer-cells\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Natural killer (NK) cells<\/a>, however, can recognize diseased cells the <em>first<\/em> time they cross paths with them \u2014 and then alert other members of the immune system, too.<\/p>\n<p>This makes them a valuable first-line defense against illness, but, unfortunately, cancer cells multiply too fast and NK cells die too quickly for them to outright stop many cancers from spreading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in South Korea developed a technique for encapsulating NK cells in a hydrogel that could be 3D printed into a porous shape and later implanted at the site of a removed tumor.\u2060. A new 3D-printing-based approach could unleash a cutting-edge immunotherapy against solid tumors, which account for 90% of all cancers. Natural killers: Some [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175363","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}