{"id":241051,"date":"2026-07-17T00:32:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/this-sugar-coated-therapy-boosted-survival-against-deadly-brain-cancer-by-50-in-mice"},"modified":"2026-07-17T00:32:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:32:05","slug":"this-sugar-coated-therapy-boosted-survival-against-deadly-brain-cancer-by-50-in-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/this-sugar-coated-therapy-boosted-survival-against-deadly-brain-cancer-by-50-in-mice","title":{"rendered":"This sugar-coated therapy boosted survival against deadly brain cancer by 50% in mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-sugar-coated-therapy-boosted-survival-against-deadly-brain-cancer-by-50-in-mice.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new experimental treatment may have found a way to outsmart glioblastoma\u2019s toughest defense: the blood-brain barrier. Researchers used sugar-coated nanoparticles to ferry genetic instructions that restore a key tumor-suppressing protein directly into brain cancer cells. In mouse studies, the therapy increased median survival by 50% while shrinking tumors without noticeable damage to other organs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new experimental treatment may have found a way to outsmart glioblastoma\u2019s toughest defense: the blood-brain barrier. Researchers used sugar-coated nanoparticles to ferry genetic instructions that restore a key tumor-suppressing protein directly into brain cancer cells. In mouse studies, the therapy increased median survival by 50% while shrinking tumors without noticeable damage to other organs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,4,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241051","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=241051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}