{"id":107785,"date":"2020-05-28T20:43:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T03:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/scientists-create-virus-that-has-potential-to-fight-cancer"},"modified":"2020-05-28T20:43:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T03:43:51","slug":"scientists-create-virus-that-has-potential-to-fight-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/scientists-create-virus-that-has-potential-to-fight-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create virus that has potential to fight cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-virus-that-has-potential-to-fight-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not all viruses set out to cause widespread death and sickness \u2014 some have the potential to fight cancer, according to new research.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Hokkaido University in Japan have genetically engineered adenoviruses, which is a family of viruses that cause mild symptoms, to replicate inside cancer cells and kill them, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2072-6694\/12\/5\/1205\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new paper in the journal Cancers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To do this, Fumihiro Higashino, a molecular oncologist, and his team inserted adenylate-uridylate-rich elements (AREs) from two human genes \u2014 a stabilizing element found in a type of macromolecule present in all biological cells \u2014 into two strains of the virus to help specifically attack cancer cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all viruses set out to cause widespread death and sickness \u2014 some have the potential to fight cancer, according to new research. Researchers from Hokkaido University in Japan have genetically engineered adenoviruses, which is a family of viruses that cause mild symptoms, to replicate inside cancer cells and kill them, according to a new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107785","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=107785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}