{"id":77615,"date":"2018-04-08T14:45:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T21:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/new-cancer-vaccine-implant-from-harvard-reprograms-our-cells"},"modified":"2018-04-08T14:45:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T21:45:53","slug":"new-cancer-vaccine-implant-from-harvard-reprograms-our-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/new-cancer-vaccine-implant-from-harvard-reprograms-our-cells","title":{"rendered":"New Cancer Vaccine Implant from Harvard Reprograms Our Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-cancer-vaccine-implant-from-harvard-reprograms-our-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>In brief: An implantable cancer vaccine from Harvard has shown promising results in mice, and researchers are testing it in a clinical trial on humans. [This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/about\/\">LongevityFacts<\/a>. Author: <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+BCHartman\">Brady Hartman.<\/a> ]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An implantable cancer vaccine being tested on patients by Harvard\u2019s Wyss Institute is a new type of immunotherapy that holds promise to treat a wide range of cancers such as melanoma, as well as auto-immune conditions and infectious diseases. The aspirin-sized implant is made of a polymer scaffold containing growth factors and tissue samples from a patient\u2019s tumors which trains a patient\u2019s immune system to search and destroy cancer cells.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard\u2019s cancer vaccine is approaching the end of clinical testing, promising to be available 4 or 5 years sooner than <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/cancer-vaccine-eradicates-tumors-mice-holds-promise-humans\/\">Stanford\u2019s vaccine<\/a> with its 97% cure rate.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/cancer-vaccine-implant-reprograms-cells\/\">http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/cancer-vaccine-implant-reprograms-cells\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In brief: An implantable cancer vaccine from Harvard has shown promising results in mice, and researchers are testing it in a clinical trial on humans. [This article first appeared on LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman. ] An implantable cancer vaccine being tested on patients by Harvard\u2019s Wyss Institute is a new type of immunotherapy that holds [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":473,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77615","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\/473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}