{"id":26394,"date":"2016-06-02T14:31:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T21:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/scientists-trick-bodys-viral-response-to-combat-cancer"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:58:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:58:04","slug":"scientists-trick-bodys-viral-response-to-combat-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/scientists-trick-bodys-viral-response-to-combat-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Scientists trick body\u2019s viral response to combat cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-trick-bodys-viral-response-to-combat-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>German researchers on Wednesday presented a Trojan horse method of attacking cancer, sneaking virus impersonators into the human body to unleash an anti-tumour immune offensive.<\/p>\n<p>Tested in only three people so far, the treatment claims to be the latest advance in immunotherapy, which aims to rouse the body\u2019s own immune army against disease.<\/p>\n<p>Made in the lab, this Trojan horse is composed of nanoparticles containing <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cancer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cancer<\/a> RNA\u2014a form of genetic coding\u2014enclosed by a fatty acid membrane.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2016-06-scientists-body-viral-response-combat.html\">http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2016&#45;06-scientists-body-vi...ombat.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German researchers on Wednesday presented a Trojan horse method of attacking cancer, sneaking virus impersonators into the human body to unleash an anti-tumour immune offensive. Tested in only three people so far, the treatment claims to be the latest advance in immunotherapy, which aims to rouse the body\u2019s own immune army against disease. Made in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26394","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67360,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26394\/revisions\/67360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}