{"id":178334,"date":"2023-12-14T20:25:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T02:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/nanoparticles-amplify-potential-cancer-vaccine-power"},"modified":"2023-12-14T20:25:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T02:25:39","slug":"nanoparticles-amplify-potential-cancer-vaccine-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/nanoparticles-amplify-potential-cancer-vaccine-power","title":{"rendered":"Nanoparticles amplify potential cancer vaccine power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanoparticles-amplify-potential-cancer-vaccine-power3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Johns Hopkins researchers have identified minuscule particles that supercharge therapeutic cancer vaccines, which train the immune system to attack tumors. These new lipid nanoparticles\u2014tiny structures made of fat\u2014not only stimulate a two-pronged immune system response that enhances the body\u2019s ability to fight cancer but also make vaccines more effective in targeting tumors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis research marks a pivotal turning point in our understanding of how <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/lipid+nanoparticles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">lipid nanoparticles<\/a> can be harnessed to optimize anticancer immunity,\u201d said Hai-Quan Mao, director of Johns Hopkins\u2019 Institute for NanoBioTechnology and professor in the Whiting School of Engineering\u2019s Department of Materials Science and Engineering. \u201cOur findings unlock new avenues for enhancing the efficacy of RNA-based treatments for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cancer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cancer<\/a> and infectious diseases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41551-023-01131-0\">team\u2019s results<\/a> appear in Nature Biomedical Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johns Hopkins researchers have identified minuscule particles that supercharge therapeutic cancer vaccines, which train the immune system to attack tumors. These new lipid nanoparticles\u2014tiny structures made of fat\u2014not only stimulate a two-pronged immune system response that enhances the body\u2019s ability to fight cancer but also make vaccines more effective in targeting tumors. \u201cThis research marks [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178334","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}