{"id":218426,"date":"2025-07-21T19:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/universal-cancer-vaccine-trains-the-immune-system-to-kill-any-tumor"},"modified":"2025-07-21T19:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:28:12","slug":"universal-cancer-vaccine-trains-the-immune-system-to-kill-any-tumor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/universal-cancer-vaccine-trains-the-immune-system-to-kill-any-tumor","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Universal cancer vaccine\u2019 trains the immune system to kill any tumor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/universal-cancer-vaccine-trains-the-immune-system-to-kill-any-tumor.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following on from their breakthrough human trial that successfully reprogrammed the immune system to overpower glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor, the same scientists have now further developed the mRNA vaccine to fight not one but any cancer. It has the potential to do away with chemotherapy, surgery and radiation treatment.<\/p>\n<p>University of Florida (UF) scientists have developed an experimental vaccine that dramatically boosts the immune system\u2019s ability to fight tumors \u2013 even without targeting a specific cancer type. This \u201cgeneral purpose\u201d mRNA jab works in a similar way to a Covid-19 vaccine but with a different target; it instructs the body\u2019s immune cells to rally and hit any kind of tumor in the same way they would attack a viral spike protein.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis paper describes a very unexpected and exciting observation: that even a vaccine not specific to any particular tumor or virus \u2013 so long as it is an mRNA vaccine \u2013 could lead to tumor-specific effects,\u201d said Elias Sayour, a pediatric oncologist and principal investigator at the RNA Engineering Laboratory at UF. \u201cThis finding is a proof of concept that these vaccines potentially could be commercialized as universal cancer vaccines to sensitize the immune system against a patient\u2019s individual tumor.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from their breakthrough human trial that successfully reprogrammed the immune system to overpower glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor, the same scientists have now further developed the mRNA vaccine to fight not one but any cancer. It has the potential to do away with chemotherapy, surgery and radiation treatment. University of Florida (UF) scientists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218426","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\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}