{"id":12591,"date":"2014-11-14T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12591"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:10:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:10:32","slug":"injected-bacteria-shrink-tumors-in-rats-dogs-and-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/injected-bacteria-shrink-tumors-in-rats-dogs-and-humans","title":{"rendered":"Injected Bacteria Shrink Tumors in Rats, Dogs and Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johns Hopskins Medicine<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>A modified version of the Clostridium novyi (C. novyi-NT) bacterium can produce a strong and precisely targeted anti-tumor response in rats, dogs and now humans, according to a new report from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopkinsmedicine.org\/kimmel_cancer_center\/\">Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center<\/a> researchers.<\/p>\n<p>In its natural form, C. novyi is found in the soil and, in certain cases, can cause tissue-damaging infection in cattle, sheep and humans. The microbe thrives only in oxygen-poor environments, which makes it a targeted means of destroying oxygen-starved cells in tumors that are difficult to treat with chemotherapy and radiation. The Johns Hopkins team removed one of the bacteria\u2019s toxin-producing genes to make it safer for therapeutic use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopkinsmedicine.org\/news\/media\/releases\/injected_bacteria_shrink_tumors_in_rats_dogs_and_humans\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johns Hopskins Medicine A modified version of the Clostridium novyi (C. novyi-NT) bacterium can produce a strong and precisely targeted anti-tumor response in rats, dogs and now humans, according to a new report from Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers. In its natural form, C. novyi is found in the soil and, in certain cases, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12591","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46774,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12591\/revisions\/46774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}