{"id":218823,"date":"2025-07-27T03:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T08:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/plant-virus-triggers-immune-response-that-targets-and-destroys-cancer-cells"},"modified":"2025-07-27T03:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T08:04:07","slug":"plant-virus-triggers-immune-response-that-targets-and-destroys-cancer-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/plant-virus-triggers-immune-response-that-targets-and-destroys-cancer-cells","title":{"rendered":"Plant virus triggers immune response that targets and destroys cancer cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/plant-virus-triggers-immune-response-that-targets-and-destroys-cancer-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A virus that typically infects black-eyed peas is showing great promise as a low-cost, potent cancer immunotherapy\u2014and researchers are uncovering why.<\/p>\n<p>In a study published in <i>Cell Biomaterials<\/i>, a team led by chemical and nano engineers at the University of California San Diego took a closer look at how the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cowpea+mosaic+virus\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cowpea mosaic virus<\/a> (CPMV), unlike other plant viruses, is uniquely effective at activating the body\u2019s immune system to recognize and attack cancer cells.<\/p>\n<p>The study is titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell-biomaterials\/fulltext\/S3050-5623(25)00086-8\" target=\"_blank\">Comparative analyses for plant virus-based cancer immunotherapy drug development<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A virus that typically infects black-eyed peas is showing great promise as a low-cost, potent cancer immunotherapy\u2014and researchers are uncovering why. In a study published in Cell Biomaterials, a team led by chemical and nano engineers at the University of California San Diego took a closer look at how the cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV), unlike [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218823","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=218823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}