{"id":180199,"date":"2024-01-10T10:25:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T16:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/antibody-removes-abnormal-proteins-from-cancer-cells"},"modified":"2024-01-10T10:25:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T16:25:17","slug":"antibody-removes-abnormal-proteins-from-cancer-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/antibody-removes-abnormal-proteins-from-cancer-cells","title":{"rendered":"Antibody Removes Abnormal Proteins from Cancer Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/antibody-removes-abnormal-proteins-from-cancer-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Antibodies are used in many kinds of cancer treatments but have only been able to reach proteins on the outside of cancer cells\u2014until now. According to a new study, scientists have designed <a class=\"\" data-glossary-id=\"CDR0000044918\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.gov\/Common\/PopUps\/popDefinition.aspx?id=CDR0000044918&version=Patient&language=en\">antibodies<\/a> that can barge into cancer cells and drag abnormal <a class=\"\" data-glossary-id=\"CDR0000046092\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.gov\/Common\/PopUps\/popDefinition.aspx?id=CDR0000046092&version=Patient&language=en\">proteins<\/a> out, ultimately slowing tumor growth in mice.<\/p>\n<p>The approach is a novel way of targeting cancer-fueling proteins that are buried inside cancer cells, several experts said.<\/p>\n<p>Most antibodies can\u2019t get inside cells. Yet most cancer-fueling proteins are tucked deep inside cancer cells. One type of antibody, however, called IgA, can glide through certain cells like a ghost walking through a wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antibodies are used in many kinds of cancer treatments but have only been able to reach proteins on the outside of cancer cells\u2014until now. According to a new study, scientists have designed antibodies that can barge into cancer cells and drag abnormal proteins out, ultimately slowing tumor growth in mice. The approach is a novel [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180199","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=180199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}