{"id":19408,"date":"2015-11-18T01:16:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T09:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/super-natural-killer-cells-destroy-cancer-in-lymph-nodes-to-halt-metastasis"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:19:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:19:25","slug":"super-natural-killer-cells-destroy-cancer-in-lymph-nodes-to-halt-metastasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/super-natural-killer-cells-destroy-cancer-in-lymph-nodes-to-halt-metastasis","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Super natural killer cells\u2019 destroy cancer in lymph nodes to halt metastasis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/super-natural-killer-cells-destroy-cancer-in-lymph-nodes-to-halt-metastasis.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nanoscale liposomes (orange) containing TRAIL protein (green) attach to the surface of white blood cells (blue), bump into cancer cells (brown), and program them to die (credit: Cornell University) <\/p>\n<p>Cornell biomedical engineers have developed specialized white blood cells they call \u201csuper natural killer cells\u201d that seek out cancer cells in lymph nodes with only one purpose: to destroy them, halting the onset of cancer tumor cell metastasis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to see lymph-node metastasis become a thing of the past,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bme.cornell.edu\/people\/profile.cfm?netid=mrk93\">Michael R. King<\/a>, the Daljit S. and Elaine Sarkaria Professor of Biomedical Engineering and senior author of a paper in the journal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journals.elsevier.com\/biomaterials\/\">Biomaterials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/super-natural-killer-cells-destroy-cancer-in-lymph-nodes-to-halt-metastasis\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nanoscale liposomes (orange) containing TRAIL protein (green) attach to the surface of white blood cells (blue), bump into cancer cells (brown), and program them to die (credit: Cornell University) Cornell biomedical engineers have developed specialized white blood cells they call \u201csuper natural killer cells\u201d that seek out cancer cells in lymph nodes with only one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19408","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69181,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19408\/revisions\/69181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}