{"id":139793,"date":"2022-05-25T00:06:24","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T05:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/first-patient-injected-with-experimental-cancer-killing-virus-in-new-clinical-trial"},"modified":"2022-05-25T00:06:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T05:06:24","slug":"first-patient-injected-with-experimental-cancer-killing-virus-in-new-clinical-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/first-patient-injected-with-experimental-cancer-killing-virus-in-new-clinical-trial","title":{"rendered":"First Patient Injected With Experimental Cancer-Killing Virus in New Clinical Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-patient-injected-with-experimental-cancer-killing-virus-in-new-clinical-trial3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An experimental <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/cancer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"cancer\">cancer<\/a>-killing virus has been administered to a human patient for the first time, with hopes the testing will ultimately reveal evidence of a new means of successfully fighting cancer tumors in people\u2019s bodies.<\/p>\n<p>The drug candidate, called CF33-hNIS (aka Vaxinia), is what\u2019s called an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oncolytic_virus\">oncolytic virus<\/a>, a genetically modified virus designed to selectively infect and kill cancer cells while sparing healthy ones.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of CF33-hNIS, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imugene.com\/oncolytic-virus\">the modified pox virus works<\/a> by entering cells and duplicating itself. Eventually, the infected cell bursts, releasing thousands of new virus particles that act as antigens, stimulating the immune system to attack nearby cancer cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An experimental cancer-killing virus has been administered to a human patient for the first time, with hopes the testing will ultimately reveal evidence of a new means of successfully fighting cancer tumors in people\u2019s bodies. The drug candidate, called CF33-hNIS (aka Vaxinia), is what\u2019s called an oncolytic virus, a genetically modified virus designed to selectively [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139793","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\/139793","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=139793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}