{"id":223130,"date":"2025-10-09T03:20:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/mit-and-harvard-build-invisible-immune-cells-that-obliterate-cancer"},"modified":"2025-10-09T03:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:20:13","slug":"mit-and-harvard-build-invisible-immune-cells-that-obliterate-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/mit-and-harvard-build-invisible-immune-cells-that-obliterate-cancer","title":{"rendered":"MIT and Harvard Build \u201cInvisible\u201d Immune Cells That Obliterate Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-and-harvard-build-invisible-immune-cells-that-obliterate-cancer3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MIT and Harvard scientists have created engineered CAR-NK cells that can hide from the immune system and more effectively destroy cancer.<\/p>\n<p>The cells are designed to suppress immune-rejection signals and enhance tumor-killing power. Tested in humanized mice, they wiped out cancer while avoiding dangerous immune reactions.<\/p>\n<p>A major breakthrough in immune engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT and Harvard scientists have created engineered CAR-NK cells that can hide from the immune system and more effectively destroy cancer. The cells are designed to suppress immune-rejection signals and enhance tumor-killing power. Tested in humanized mice, they wiped out cancer while avoiding dangerous immune reactions. A major breakthrough in immune engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223130","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}