{"id":86910,"date":"2019-01-22T05:04:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T13:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/scientists-seek-trojan-horse-flu-virus-to-target-prostate-cancer"},"modified":"2019-01-22T05:04:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T13:04:32","slug":"scientists-seek-trojan-horse-flu-virus-to-target-prostate-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/scientists-seek-trojan-horse-flu-virus-to-target-prostate-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Scientists seek \u2018Trojan horse\u2019 flu virus to target prostate cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-seek-trojan-horse-flu-virus-to-target-prostate-cancer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>London scientists are seeking to create a \u201cTrojan horse\u201d version of the flu virus to target advanced prostate cancer. A team at Barts Cancer Institute has won \u00a3245,000 from Prostate Cancer UK to continue pioneering research into a disease that kills 11,500 men a year. Early trials on mice have shown that the flu virus can be re-engineered to kill prostate cancer cells that have \u201cmetastasised\u201d and spread away from the main tumour.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/health\/scientists-bid-to-create-trojan-horse-version-of-flu-virus-to-target-advanced-prostate-cancer-a4045391.html\">https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/health\/scientists-bid-to-cre...45391.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London scientists are seeking to create a \u201cTrojan horse\u201d version of the flu virus to target advanced prostate cancer. A team at Barts Cancer Institute has won \u00a3245,000 from Prostate Cancer UK to continue pioneering research into a disease that kills 11,500 men a year. Early trials on mice have shown that the flu virus [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86910","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}