{"id":195362,"date":"2024-08-28T20:23:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T01:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/scientists-working-on-cancer-vaccine-that-uses-immune-systems-killer-cells"},"modified":"2024-08-28T20:23:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T01:23:08","slug":"scientists-working-on-cancer-vaccine-that-uses-immune-systems-killer-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/scientists-working-on-cancer-vaccine-that-uses-immune-systems-killer-cells","title":{"rendered":"Scientists working on cancer vaccine that uses immune system\u2019s \u2018killer\u2019 cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-working-on-cancer-vaccine-that-uses-immune-systems-killer-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/scientists\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Scientists<\/a> are working on a \u201cbreakthrough\u201d cancer vaccine after discovering how the body\u2019s immune system targets cells devastated by the disease.<\/p>\n<p>A study led by researchers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/university-of-southampton\" rel=\"nofollow\"> University of Southampton<\/a> found the body\u2019s natural \u201ckiller\u201d cells \u2013 from the immune system which protects against disease and infections \u2013 instinctively recognise and attack a protein that drives cancer growth.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists believe that by using this protein \u2013 known as XPO1 \u2013 they may be able to activate more killer cells to destroy the disease, paving the way for new and less invasive forms of cancer treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are working on a \u201cbreakthrough\u201d cancer vaccine after discovering how the body\u2019s immune system targets cells devastated by the disease. A study led by researchers from the University of Southampton found the body\u2019s natural \u201ckiller\u201d cells \u2013 from the immune system which protects against disease and infections \u2013 instinctively recognise and attack a protein [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195362","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=195362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}