{"id":246371,"date":"2026-11-02T22:10:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T04:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/mit-engineers-create-nanoparticles-for-delivering-personalized-cancer-vaccines"},"modified":"2026-11-02T22:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T04:10:30","slug":"mit-engineers-create-nanoparticles-for-delivering-personalized-cancer-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/mit-engineers-create-nanoparticles-for-delivering-personalized-cancer-vaccines","title":{"rendered":"MIT engineers create nanoparticles for delivering personalized cancer vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A nanoscale particle with a unique structure, developed at MIT, holds potential as a customizable delivery vehicle for personalized cancer vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>The backbone of the vaccine is a modified, harmless bacteriophage called M13, which forms a nanofiber that can be coated with cancer antigens. By precisely controlling the density of those cancer proteins, the researchers found that they could create a vaccine that prevents the development of colon tumors in mice.<\/p>\n<p>This type of delivery particle could be adapted to carry many different antigens, allowing for the creation of personalized vaccines to treat individual patients\u2019 tumors, the researchers say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nanoscale particle with a unique structure, developed at MIT, holds potential as a customizable delivery vehicle for personalized cancer vaccines. The backbone of the vaccine is a modified, harmless bacteriophage called M13, which forms a nanofiber that can be coated with cancer antigens. By precisely controlling the density of those cancer proteins, the researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246371","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=246371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}