{"id":244506,"date":"2026-09-25T13:02:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T18:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/experimental-cancer-vaccine-makes-its-own-oxygen-and-gives-t-cells-a-boost"},"modified":"2026-09-25T13:02:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T18:02:43","slug":"experimental-cancer-vaccine-makes-its-own-oxygen-and-gives-t-cells-a-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/experimental-cancer-vaccine-makes-its-own-oxygen-and-gives-t-cells-a-boost","title":{"rendered":"Experimental cancer vaccine makes its own oxygen and gives T cells a boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/experimental-cancer-vaccine-makes-its-own-oxygen-and-gives-t-cells-a-boost.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to priorities in life, oxygen tops the list. Humans can go weeks without food and days without water. Take away the ability to breathe, however, and the clock starts ticking within minutes as the brain begins shutting down. But the life-giving gas does even more heavy lifting than you might think.<\/p>\n<p>The immune system, which battles cancer with the help of specialized fighters, such as T cells, relies on oxygen to mount its attack.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Bouv\u00e9 College of Health Sciences professor and director of the pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences graduate program Stephen Hatfield and his colleagues are enlisting oxygen in the cancer fight with a new vaccine designed to give T cells a powerful edge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to priorities in life, oxygen tops the list. Humans can go weeks without food and days without water. Take away the ability to breathe, however, and the clock starts ticking within minutes as the brain begins shutting down. But the life-giving gas does even more heavy lifting than you might think. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244506","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}