{"id":146964,"date":"2022-09-24T15:23:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T20:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/new-genetically-engineered-herpes-virus-kills-cancer-cells"},"modified":"2022-09-24T15:23:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T20:23:06","slug":"new-genetically-engineered-herpes-virus-kills-cancer-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/new-genetically-engineered-herpes-virus-kills-cancer-cells","title":{"rendered":"New genetically engineered herpes virus kills cancer cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-genetically-engineered-herpes-virus-kills-cancer-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A genetically modified version of the herpes virus has shown great potential in treating advanced cancers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icr.ac.uk\/news-archive\/genetically-modified-herpes-virus-delivers-one-two-punch-against-advanced-cancers\" title=\"according to a report\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">according to a report<\/a> by the Institute of Cancer Research in London published on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><b>A promising therapy<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Although the treatment is still in early trials, researchers have found that RP2, a modified version of the herpes simplex virus, managed to kill cancer cells in a quarter of patients. The patients had <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/health\/vaccine-prevent-cancer\" title=\"cancers so advanced and complicated\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">cancers so advanced and complicated<\/a> that they had run out of treatments to try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A genetically modified version of the herpes virus has shown great potential in treating advanced cancers, according to a report by the Institute of Cancer Research in London published on Thursday. A promising therapy Although the treatment is still in early trials, researchers have found that RP2, a modified version of the herpes simplex virus, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146964","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\/146964","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}