{"id":103525,"date":"2020-03-09T21:02:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T04:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/immune-cell-which-kills-most-cancers-discovered-by-accident-by-british-scientists-in-major-breakthrough"},"modified":"2020-03-09T21:02:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T04:02:46","slug":"immune-cell-which-kills-most-cancers-discovered-by-accident-by-british-scientists-in-major-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/immune-cell-which-kills-most-cancers-discovered-by-accident-by-british-scientists-in-major-breakthrough","title":{"rendered":"Immune cell which kills most cancers discovered by accident by British scientists in major breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/immune-cell-which-kills-most-cancers-discovered-by-accident-by-british-scientists-in-major-breakthrough.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"3D illustration of a cancer cell in the process of mitosis.\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/immune-cell-which-kills-most-cancers-discovered-by-accident-by-british-scientists-in-major-breakthrough2.jpg\" class=\"\"> 3D illustration of a cancer cell in the process of mitosis. 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 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>3D illustration of a cancer cell in the process of mitosis. 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 [\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-103525","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\/103525","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=103525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}