{"id":22107,"date":"2016-02-14T21:40:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T05:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/younger-t-cells-may-improve-immunotherapy-for-cancer-in-kids"},"modified":"2016-02-14T21:40:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T05:40:59","slug":"younger-t-cells-may-improve-immunotherapy-for-cancer-in-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/younger-t-cells-may-improve-immunotherapy-for-cancer-in-kids","title":{"rendered":"Younger T Cells May Improve Immunotherapy for Cancer in Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very nice.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NEW YORK: Enriching T cells \u2014 a type of white blood cell \u2014 to attack certain cancerous diseases may prove beneficial to an increasing number of children during immunotherapy, says a study.<\/p>\n<p>Younger T cells, classified as either naive T cells (newly minted cells) or stem central memory T cells (self-renewing, highly proliferative cells) were the most effective in immunotherapy, the study showed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur main finding is that younger T cells are critically important in T cell immunotherapy,\u201d said David M. Barrett, paediatric oncologist at The Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), University of Pennsylvania, US.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconindia.com\/news\/life\/Younger-T-Cells-May-Improve-Immunotherapy-for-Cancer-in-Kids-nid-192346-cid-51.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very nice. NEW YORK: Enriching T cells \u2014 a type of white blood cell \u2014 to attack certain cancerous diseases may prove beneficial to an increasing number of children during immunotherapy, says a study. Younger T cells, classified as either naive T cells (newly minted cells) or stem central memory T cells (self-renewing, highly proliferative [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22107","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}