{"id":146529,"date":"2022-09-16T17:22:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T22:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/experimental-therapy-shows-promise-against-autoimmune-disease"},"modified":"2022-09-16T17:22:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T22:22:37","slug":"experimental-therapy-shows-promise-against-autoimmune-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/experimental-therapy-shows-promise-against-autoimmune-disease","title":{"rendered":"Experimental therapy shows promise against autoimmune disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/experimental-therapy-shows-promise-against-autoimmune-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new autoimmune therapy harnesses a person\u2019s own cells to find and correct other defective cells \u2013 an answer for patients who haven\u2019t responded to other treatments and a possible cure for diseases like lupus.<\/p>\n<p>Autoimmune diseases are conditions where the body\u2019s immune system attacks other cells in the body and causes symptoms like inflammation. This happens through autoantibodies, or antibodies that attack the self, produced by a type of white blood known as B cells.<\/p>\n<p>New research tests a type of immunotherapy where T cells, another type of white blood cell, are edited to root out the defective B cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new autoimmune therapy harnesses a person\u2019s own cells to find and correct other defective cells \u2013 an answer for patients who haven\u2019t responded to other treatments and a possible cure for diseases like lupus. Autoimmune diseases are conditions where the body\u2019s immune system attacks other cells in the body and causes symptoms like inflammation. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146529","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}