{"id":240298,"date":"2026-07-05T00:14:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T05:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/scientists-just-unlocked-an-endless-army-of-cancer-fighting-cells"},"modified":"2026-07-05T00:14:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T05:14:34","slug":"scientists-just-unlocked-an-endless-army-of-cancer-fighting-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/scientists-just-unlocked-an-endless-army-of-cancer-fighting-cells","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just Unlocked an Endless Army of Cancer-Fighting Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-unlocked-an-endless-army-of-cancer-fighting-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The human immune system has evolved an incredible ability to fight off cancerous cells.<\/p>\n<p>One of the first lines of defense is a specialized white blood cell called a <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ccell.2026.01.020\">macrophage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Its name is derived from the Greek words for \u201cbig\u201d and \u201ceater\u201d, and, as its name suggests, this type of cell has a fierce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/watch-immune-cells-caught-on-video-eating-live-skin-cancer-cells\">appetite<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/cancer\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">cancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The human immune system has evolved an incredible ability to fight off cancerous cells. One of the first lines of defense is a specialized white blood cell called a macrophage. Its name is derived from the Greek words for \u201cbig\u201d and \u201ceater\u201d, and, as its name suggests, this type of cell has a fierce appetite [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240298","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}