{"id":182963,"date":"2024-02-17T15:50:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T21:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/scientists-stole-a-mutation-from-cancer-and-used-it-to-kill-tumors"},"modified":"2024-02-17T15:50:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T21:50:18","slug":"scientists-stole-a-mutation-from-cancer-and-used-it-to-kill-tumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/scientists-stole-a-mutation-from-cancer-and-used-it-to-kill-tumors","title":{"rendered":"Scientists stole a mutation from cancer and used it to kill tumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KO-Crvh_2x0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve used the mutations that give cancer cells their staying power to engineer what we call a \u2018Judo T-cell therapy\u2019 that can survive and thrive in the harsh conditions that tumors create,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsf.edu\/news\/2024\/02\/427081\/judo-move-scientists-use-cancers-strength-fight-against-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> co-author Kole Roybal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CAR-T cells:<\/strong> CAR-T cell therapy starts with doctors extracting T cells \u2014 a type of white blood cell \u2014 from a cancer patient\u2019s blood. They then engineer the T cells to display proteins called \u201cchimeric antigen receptors\u201d (CARs) that bind to cancer cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve used the mutations that give cancer cells their staying power to engineer what we call a \u2018Judo T-cell therapy\u2019 that can survive and thrive in the harsh conditions that tumors create,\u201d said co-author Kole Roybal. CAR-T cells: CAR-T cell therapy starts with doctors extracting T cells \u2014 a type of white blood cell \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182963","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}