{"id":225095,"date":"2025-11-14T12:08:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/new-study-finds-bacteria-in-brain-tumors-play-surprising-role-in-cancer-growth"},"modified":"2025-11-14T12:08:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:08:42","slug":"new-study-finds-bacteria-in-brain-tumors-play-surprising-role-in-cancer-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/new-study-finds-bacteria-in-brain-tumors-play-surprising-role-in-cancer-growth","title":{"rendered":"New study finds bacteria in brain tumors play \u2018surprising\u2019 role in cancer growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-study-finds-bacteria-in-brain-tumors-play-surprising-role-in-cancer-growth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Newly published research in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Cancer suggests that bacteria inside brain tumors may play a far more active role in how cancers grow, spread and respond to treatment than previously understood, according to Prof. Ravid Straussman of the Weizmann Institute of Science.<\/p>\n<p>For years, scientists considered tumors as places where bacteria didn\u2019t grow.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If this problem persists, please email us at support AT <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofisrael.com\">timesofisrael.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to include in your email the following details:<\/p>\n<p>Your IP 2600:3c00::f03c:92ff: fe29:18d2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly published research in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Cancer suggests that bacteria inside brain tumors may play a far more active role in how cancers grow, spread and respond to treatment than previously understood, according to Prof. Ravid Straussman of the Weizmann Institute of Science. For years, scientists considered tumors as places where bacteria didn\u2019t [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225095","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\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}