{"id":198866,"date":"2024-11-06T21:22:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T03:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/scientists-create-a-potent-bacterial-anti-cancer-vaccine"},"modified":"2024-11-06T21:22:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T03:22:29","slug":"scientists-create-a-potent-bacterial-anti-cancer-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/scientists-create-a-potent-bacterial-anti-cancer-vaccine","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Create a Potent Bacterial Anti-Cancer Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-a-potent-bacterial-anti-cancer-vaccine.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study describes a novel anti-cancer vaccine based on antigen-producing bacteria that <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41586-024-08033-4\">can tackle solid and metastatic cancers<\/a> [1].<\/p>\n<p><b><b>Invading an invader<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Years ago, scientists discovered that bacteria can colonize tumors [2]. Some bacteria are drawn to the tumor microenvironment due to factors such as necrotic tissue, hypoxia, and nutrient availability. For example, <i>Clostridium<\/i> species prefer anaerobic conditions and have been explored in tumor-targeting therapies. <i>Salmonella<\/i> and <i>E. coli<\/i> strains have also shown an affinity for tumors [3].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study describes a novel anti-cancer vaccine based on antigen-producing bacteria that can tackle solid and metastatic cancers [1]. Invading an invader Years ago, scientists discovered that bacteria can colonize tumors [2]. Some bacteria are drawn to the tumor microenvironment due to factors such as necrotic tissue, hypoxia, and nutrient availability. For example, Clostridium [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198866","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}