{"id":101165,"date":"2020-01-21T13:45:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T21:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/killer-t-cell-discovery-could-mean-universal-cancer-treatment"},"modified":"2020-01-21T13:45:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T21:45:52","slug":"killer-t-cell-discovery-could-mean-universal-cancer-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/killer-t-cell-discovery-could-mean-universal-cancer-treatment","title":{"rendered":"Killer T-Cell Discovery Could Mean \u2018Universal\u2019 Cancer Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YQnzhSsnnDU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A new type of killer T-cell could serve as \u201cone-size-fits-all\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/tech\/google-health-ai-spots-breast-cancer-human-doctors-miss-1815131\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cancer therapy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Cardiff University in Wales <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/news\/view\/1749599-discovery-of-new-t-cell-raises-prospect-of-universal-cancer-therapy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discovered a different kind of T-cell receptor<\/a> (TCR)\u2014one that recognizes and kills most human cancer cells while ignoring healthy ones.<\/p>\n<p>The early-stage findings, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41590-019-0578-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published this week<\/a> in the journal <i>Nature Immunology<\/i>, have not yet been tested in patients. But the team said they have \u201cenormous potential.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new type of killer T-cell could serve as \u201cone-size-fits-all\u201d cancer therapy. Researchers at Cardiff University in Wales discovered a different kind of T-cell receptor (TCR)\u2014one that recognizes and kills most human cancer cells while ignoring healthy ones. The early-stage findings, published this week in the journal Nature Immunology, have not yet been tested in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101165","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}