{"id":34878,"date":"2017-02-25T12:03:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T20:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/scientists-say-induced-hibernation-could-help-us-fight-cancer-in-the-future"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:11:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:11:35","slug":"scientists-say-induced-hibernation-could-help-us-fight-cancer-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/scientists-say-induced-hibernation-could-help-us-fight-cancer-in-the-future","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Say Induced Hibernation Could Help Us Fight Cancer in the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-say-induced-hibernation-could-help-us-fight-cancer-in-the-future.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hibernation used in conjunction with radiotherapy could be the key to fighting cancer in the future, according to new research.<\/p>\n<p>Putting cancer patients into a hibernation-like \u2018deep sleep\u2019 state could hypothetically slow down their bodily functions and halt the spread of tumours inside their tissues, while also increasing the body\u2019s resistance to radiation, scientists suggest.<\/p>\n<p>The experimental treatment \u2013 which is still many years away from being attempted in humans \u2013 might sound like science fiction, but does have some grounding in reality.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-say-induced-hibernation-could-help-us-fight-cancer-in-the-future\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-say-induced-hibernati...the-future<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hibernation used in conjunction with radiotherapy could be the key to fighting cancer in the future, according to new research. Putting cancer patients into a hibernation-like \u2018deep sleep\u2019 state could hypothetically slow down their bodily functions and halt the spread of tumours inside their tissues, while also increasing the body\u2019s resistance to radiation, scientists suggest. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34878","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58592,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34878\/revisions\/58592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}