{"id":230305,"date":"2026-02-01T21:04:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/mit-engineers-design-nanoparticles-that-stimulate-the-immune-system-to-attack-cancer-tumors"},"modified":"2026-02-01T21:04:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:04:41","slug":"mit-engineers-design-nanoparticles-that-stimulate-the-immune-system-to-attack-cancer-tumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/mit-engineers-design-nanoparticles-that-stimulate-the-immune-system-to-attack-cancer-tumors","title":{"rendered":"MIT Engineers Design Nanoparticles That Stimulate the Immune System to Attack Cancer Tumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-engineers-design-nanoparticles-that-stimulate-the-immune-system-to-attack-cancer-tumors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Boost for Cancer Immunotherapy One promising strategy to treat cancer is stimulating the body\u2019s own immune system to attack tumors. However, tumors are very good at suppressing the immune system, so these types of treatments don\u2019t work for all patients. MIT engineers have now come up with a wa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Boost for Cancer Immunotherapy One promising strategy to treat cancer is stimulating the body\u2019s own immune system to attack tumors. However, tumors are very good at suppressing the immune system, so these types of treatments don\u2019t work for all patients. MIT engineers have now come up with a wa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230305","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}