{"id":124366,"date":"2021-06-28T09:22:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T16:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/researchers-engineer-cells-to-destroy-malignant-tumor-cells-but-leave-the-rest-alone"},"modified":"2021-06-28T09:22:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T16:22:23","slug":"researchers-engineer-cells-to-destroy-malignant-tumor-cells-but-leave-the-rest-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/researchers-engineer-cells-to-destroy-malignant-tumor-cells-but-leave-the-rest-alone","title":{"rendered":"Researchers engineer cells to destroy malignant tumor cells but leave the rest alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-engineer-cells-to-destroy-malignant-tumor-cells-but-leave-the-rest-alone2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at McMaster University have developed a promising new cancer immunotherapy that uses cancer-killing cells genetically engineered outside the body to find and destroy malignant tumors.<\/p>\n<p>The modified \u201cnatural killer\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cells<\/a> can differentiate between <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cancer+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cancer cells<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/healthy+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">healthy cells<\/a> that are often intermingled in and around tumors, destroying only the targeted cells.<\/p>\n<p>The natural killer cells\u2019 ability to distinguish the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/target+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">target cells<\/a>, even from healthy cells that bear similar markers, brings new promise to this branch of immunotherapy, say members of the research team behind a paper published in the current issue of the journal <i>iScience<\/i>, newly posted on the PubMed database.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at McMaster University have developed a promising new cancer immunotherapy that uses cancer-killing cells genetically engineered outside the body to find and destroy malignant tumors. The modified \u201cnatural killer\u201d cells can differentiate between cancer cells and healthy cells that are often intermingled in and around tumors, destroying only the targeted cells. The natural killer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124366","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\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}