{"id":233735,"date":"2026-03-20T15:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/scientists-find-kill-switch-that-activates-cancer-cell-death-in-the-lab"},"modified":"2026-03-20T15:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:12:13","slug":"scientists-find-kill-switch-that-activates-cancer-cell-death-in-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/scientists-find-kill-switch-that-activates-cancer-cell-death-in-the-lab","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Find \u2018Kill Switch\u2019 That Activates Cancer Cell Death in The Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-kill-switch-that-activates-cancer-cell-death-in-the-lab.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Year 2023 <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists have figured out a way to detonate the \u2018doors\u2019 that lead to the heart of cancerous tumors, blowing them wide open for drug treatments.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy works by triggering a \u2018timer bomb\u2019 on the cells that line a tumor\u2019s associated blood vessels.<\/p>\n<p>These vessels control access to the tumor tissue, and until they are opened, engineered immune cells can\u2019t easily gain entry to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/cancer\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">cancer<\/a> to fight it off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year 2023 face_with_colon_three Scientists have figured out a way to detonate the \u2018doors\u2019 that lead to the heart of cancerous tumors, blowing them wide open for drug treatments. The strategy works by triggering a \u2018timer bomb\u2019 on the cells that line a tumor\u2019s associated blood vessels. These vessels control access to the tumor tissue, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233735","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}