{"id":163761,"date":"2023-05-12T23:23:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T04:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/using-oncolytic-viruses-to-treat-cancer"},"modified":"2023-05-12T23:23:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T04:23:11","slug":"using-oncolytic-viruses-to-treat-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/using-oncolytic-viruses-to-treat-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Using Oncolytic Viruses to Treat Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/using-oncolytic-viruses-to-treat-cancer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Great overview of progress in the field of oncolytic viruses. Take home message: it\u2019s super important to develop viruses that not only attack tumors directly, but also stimulate immune strong responses against the cancer. #genetherapy #biotechnology<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Cancer treatments known as oncolytic viruses are being tested in clinical trials, and one, T-VEC or Imlygic\u00ae, has been approved by the FDA. Research now suggests that these treatments work not only by infecting and killing tumor cells, but that they may also be a form of cancer immunotherapy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great overview of progress in the field of oncolytic viruses. Take home message: it\u2019s super important to develop viruses that not only attack tumors directly, but also stimulate immune strong responses against the cancer. #genetherapy #biotechnology Cancer treatments known as oncolytic viruses are being tested in clinical trials, and one, T-VEC or Imlygic\u00ae, has been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163761","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\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}