{"id":41485,"date":"2025-10-02T13:22:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/?p=41485"},"modified":"2025-10-06T12:32:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T16:32:04","slug":"new-imaging-method-helps-immune-cells-zero-in-on-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/bme\/new-imaging-method-helps-immune-cells-zero-in-on-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"New imaging method helps immune cells zero in on cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Scientists are testing nanoparticle imaging to monitor how immune cells target and attack cancer.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The approach is being studied alongside dendritic cell therapy, which trains patients\u2019 immune systems to recognize cancer-specific antigens.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Clinical trials at the Preston A. Wells Jr. Center for Brain Tumor Therapy are evaluating the dendritic cell therapy\u2019s effectiveness in boosting cancer immunotherapy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>To understand the University of Florida\u2019s nanoparticle imaging research and its potential to boost cancer immunity, think of bloodhounds sniffing out troubled targets.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>White blood cells (T cells) are the bloodhounds. Cancer is the trouble. And dendritic cell therapy is the trainer directing those bloodhounds to those targets.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, in a collaboration between UF\u2019s biomedical engineering and neurosurgery departments, UF researchers are testing nanoparticle imaging to track that process and make sure T cells get to those cancer cells.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ufl.edu\/2025\/10\/nanoparticle-imagine-research-\/\">Read full story on UF News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a collaboration between UF\u2019s biomedical engineering and neurosurgery departments, UF researchers are testing the potential of nanoparticle imaging to boost cancer immunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":41489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-templates\/single-sidebar-none.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"off","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[53,61,57],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-41485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bme","category-research-innovation","category-stories","tag-carlos-rinaldi-ramos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41491,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41485\/revisions\/41491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}