{"id":127449,"date":"2021-09-09T12:23:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T19:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/mrna-cancer-therapy-now-in-human-trials-after-shrinking-mouse-tumours"},"modified":"2021-09-09T12:23:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T19:23:53","slug":"mrna-cancer-therapy-now-in-human-trials-after-shrinking-mouse-tumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/mrna-cancer-therapy-now-in-human-trials-after-shrinking-mouse-tumours","title":{"rendered":"MRNA cancer therapy now in human trials after shrinking mouse tumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mrna-cancer-therapy-now-in-human-trials-after-shrinking-mouse-tumours2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A cancer treatment that uses messenger RNA to launch an immune attack on cancer cells can completely shrink tumours in mice and is now being tested in people.<\/p>\n<p>Messenger RNAs \u2013 or mRNAs \u2013 are molecules that instruct cells to make proteins. They have risen to fame with the roll out of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/video\/2254004-how-do-mrna-coronavirus-vaccines-work-science-with-sam-explains\/\">mRNA covid-19 vaccines<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cancer treatment that uses messenger RNA to launch an immune attack on cancer cells can completely shrink tumours in mice and is now being tested in people. Messenger RNAs \u2013 or mRNAs \u2013 are molecules that instruct cells to make proteins. They have risen to fame with the roll out of mRNA covid-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127449","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}