{"id":23490,"date":"2016-03-14T06:02:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T13:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/how-gut-bacteria-are-shaking-up-cancer-research"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:06:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:06:22","slug":"how-gut-bacteria-are-shaking-up-cancer-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/how-gut-bacteria-are-shaking-up-cancer-research","title":{"rendered":"How Gut Bacteria Are Shaking Up Cancer Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-gut-bacteria-are-shaking-up-cancer-research.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Top scientists at Roche Holding AG and AstraZeneca Plc are sizing up potential allies in the fight against cancer: the trillions of bacteria that live in the human body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFive years ago, if you had asked me about bacteria in your gut playing an important role in your systemic immune response, I probably would have laughed it off,\u201d Daniel Chen, head of cancer immunotherapy research at Roche\u2019s Genentech division, said in a phone interview. \u201cMost of us immunologists now believe that there really is an important interaction there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-03-14\/how-gut-bacteria-are-shaking-up-cancer-research\">http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016&#45;03&#45;14\/ho...r-research<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top scientists at Roche Holding AG and AstraZeneca Plc are sizing up potential allies in the fight against cancer: the trillions of bacteria that live in the human body. \u201cFive years ago, if you had asked me about bacteria in your gut playing an important role in your systemic immune response, I probably would have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23490","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68034,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23490\/revisions\/68034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}