{"id":212576,"date":"2025-04-27T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/cell-therapy-the-evolution-of-the-living-drug"},"modified":"2025-04-27T17:03:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T22:03:00","slug":"cell-therapy-the-evolution-of-the-living-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/cell-therapy-the-evolution-of-the-living-drug","title":{"rendered":"Cell therapy: The evolution of the \u2018living drug\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cell-therapy-the-evolution-of-the-living-drug.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For decades, researchers have been exploring ways to harness the power of the immune system to treat cancer. One breakthrough is cell therapy, often called \u2018living drugs.\u2019 This is a form of immunotherapy that uses immune cells from a patient or a healthy donor. With advanced engineering techniques, scientists enhance these cells to recognize better and attack cancer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the late 1980s and 1990s, cancer researchers started exploring ways to advance immunotherapy by transferring immune cells into a patient to attack cancer cells,\u201d says stem cell transplant and cellular therapy specialist Hind Rafei, M.D. \u201cThey recognized that immune cells found inside tumors could help destroy cancer cells, leading to the development of one of the earliest forms of cell therapy \u2014 tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs).\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Cell therapy is a form of immunotherapy that uses immune cells from a patient or a healthy donor to treat cancer. Learn about the types of cell therapy from stem cell transplant and cellular therapy specialist Hind Rafei, M.D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, researchers have been exploring ways to harness the power of the immune system to treat cancer. One breakthrough is cell therapy, often called \u2018living drugs.\u2019 This is a form of immunotherapy that uses immune cells from a patient or a healthy donor. With advanced engineering techniques, scientists enhance these cells to recognize better [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212576","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}