{"id":98080,"date":"2019-11-02T19:43:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T02:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/rotavirus-vaccine-a-potential-new-role-as-an-anticancer-agent"},"modified":"2019-11-02T19:43:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T02:43:14","slug":"rotavirus-vaccine-a-potential-new-role-as-an-anticancer-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/rotavirus-vaccine-a-potential-new-role-as-an-anticancer-agent","title":{"rendered":"Rotavirus vaccine: A potential new role as an anticancer agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rotavirus-vaccine-a-potential-new-role-as-an-anticancer-agent2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very interesting.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Numerous vaccines, from flu shots to those those that help thwart chickenpox and measles, are widely used to guard against contagion, but researchers in France are proposing a breakthrough role for rotavirus vaccines: deploying them in cancer treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists from throughout France\u2014Paris, Lyon, Villejuif and beyond\u2014are part of a large research team that has asked a tantalizing question: Can rotavirus vaccines be repurposed to overcome resistance in cancer immunotherapy? The team is focusing on resistance that emerges to the form of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cancer+treatment\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cancer treatment<\/a> known as checkpoint blockade immunotherapy.<\/p>\n<p>So far, their investigation suggests the question about repurposing can be answered with a resounding \u201cyes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very interesting. Numerous vaccines, from flu shots to those those that help thwart chickenpox and measles, are widely used to guard against contagion, but researchers in France are proposing a breakthrough role for rotavirus vaccines: deploying them in cancer treatment. Scientists from throughout France\u2014Paris, Lyon, Villejuif and beyond\u2014are part of a large research team that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98080","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}