{"id":215964,"date":"2025-06-15T13:02:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T18:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/to-study-cancer-kill-switch-uc-san-diego-scientists-will-send-stem-cells-to-space"},"modified":"2025-06-15T13:02:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T18:02:23","slug":"to-study-cancer-kill-switch-uc-san-diego-scientists-will-send-stem-cells-to-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/to-study-cancer-kill-switch-uc-san-diego-scientists-will-send-stem-cells-to-space","title":{"rendered":"To Study Cancer \u201cKill Switch,\u201d UC San Diego Scientists Will Send Stem Cells to Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/to-study-cancer-kill-switch-uc-san-diego-scientists-will-send-stem-cells-to-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new cancer treatment discovered by the University of California San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Institute (SSCI) and developed by Aspera Biomedicines will undergo testing in outer space this spring \u2014 this as researchers prepare to launch a clinical trial of the drug on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecsinib, an investigational cancer drug slated to begin a Phase 1 clinical trial this year for patients with high-risk myelofibrosis or secondary acute myeloid leukemia, will be tested aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on four of the deadliest cancer types: ovarian cancer, metastatic breast cancer, acute myeloid leukemia and glioblastoma multiforme.<\/p>\n<p>June 12, 2025<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Rebecsinib, a new cancer treatment discovered by UC San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Institute will undergo testing in outer space on an additional four of the deadliest cancer types: ovarian cancer, metastatic breast cancer, acute myeloid leukemia and glioblastoma multiforme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new cancer treatment discovered by the University of California San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Institute (SSCI) and developed by Aspera Biomedicines will undergo testing in outer space this spring \u2014 this as researchers prepare to launch a clinical trial of the drug on Earth. Rebecsinib, an investigational cancer drug slated to begin a Phase [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215964","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}