{"id":89783,"date":"2019-04-21T11:22:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T18:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/scientists-advance-creation-of-artificial-lymph-node-to-fight-cancer-other-diseases"},"modified":"2019-04-21T11:22:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T18:22:19","slug":"scientists-advance-creation-of-artificial-lymph-node-to-fight-cancer-other-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/scientists-advance-creation-of-artificial-lymph-node-to-fight-cancer-other-diseases","title":{"rendered":"Scientists advance Creation of \u2018Artificial Lymph node\u2019 to fight Cancer, other diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-advance-creation-of-artificial-lymph-node-to-fight-cancer-other-diseases.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a proof-of-principle study in mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine report the creation of a specialized gel that acts like a lymph node to successfully activate and multiply cancer-fighting immune system T-cells. The work puts scientists a step closer, they say, to injecting such artificial lymph nodes into people and sparking T-cells to fight disease.<\/p>\n<p>In the past few years, a wave of discoveries has advanced new techniques to use T-cells \u2013 a type of white blood cell \u2013 in cancer treatment. To be successful, the cells must be primed, or taught, to spot and react to molecular flags that dot the surfaces of cancer cells. The job of educating T-cells this way typically happens in lymph nodes, small, bean-shaped glands found all over the body that house T-cells. But in patients with cancer and immune system disorders, that learning process is faulty, or doesn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n<p>To address such defects, current T-cell booster therapy requires physicians to remove T-cells from the blood of a patient with cancer and inject the cells back into the patient after either genetically engineering or activating the cells in a laboratory so they recognize cancer-linked molecular flags.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/infowebbie.com\/scienceupdate\/scientists-advance-creation-of-artificial-lymph-node-to-fight-cancer-other-diseases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a proof-of-principle study in mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine report the creation of a specialized gel that acts like a lymph node to successfully activate and multiply cancer-fighting immune system T-cells. The work puts scientists a step closer, they say, to injecting such artificial lymph nodes into people and sparking T-cells to fight [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,38,1506,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-engineering","category-food","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89783","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\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}