{"id":101230,"date":"2020-01-22T16:05:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T00:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/immune-cell-that-kills-most-cancers-discovered-by-accident-by-british-scientists"},"modified":"2020-01-22T16:05:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T00:05:43","slug":"immune-cell-that-kills-most-cancers-discovered-by-accident-by-british-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/immune-cell-that-kills-most-cancers-discovered-by-accident-by-british-scientists","title":{"rendered":"Immune cell that kills most cancers discovered by accident by British scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/immune-cell-that-kills-most-cancers-discovered-by-accident-by-british-scientists.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new type of immune cell which kills most cancers has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41590-019-0578-8\">discovered<\/a> by accident by British scientists, in a finding which could herald a major breakthrough in treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/\">Cardiff University<\/a> were analysing blood from a bank in Wales, looking for immune cells that could fight bacteria, when they found an entirely new type of T-cell.<\/p>\n<p>That new immune cell carries a never-before-seen receptor which acts like a grappling hook, latching on to most human cancers, while ignoring healthy cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new type of immune cell which kills most cancers has been discovered by accident by British scientists, in a finding which could herald a major breakthrough in treatment. Researchers at Cardiff University were analysing blood from a bank in Wales, looking for immune cells that could fight bacteria, when they found an entirely new [\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-101230","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\/101230","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=101230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}