{"id":89935,"date":"2019-04-24T19:22:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T02:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/genetically-modified-virus-may-shrink-incurable-brain-cancers"},"modified":"2019-04-24T19:22:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T02:22:20","slug":"genetically-modified-virus-may-shrink-incurable-brain-cancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/genetically-modified-virus-may-shrink-incurable-brain-cancers","title":{"rendered":"Genetically modified virus may shrink incurable brain cancers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genetically-modified-virus-may-shrink-incurable-brain-cancers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Michael Le Page<\/p>\n<p>People with incurable melanomas and brain or breast cancers are to get injections of tumour-fighting viruses.<\/p>\n<p>The trial will test the safety of a virus that has been engineered to shrink tumours \u2013 an approach that holds promise for a range of cancers, including deadly brain tumours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2200543-genetically-modified-virus-may-shrink-incurable-brain-cancers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michael Le Page People with incurable melanomas and brain or breast cancers are to get injections of tumour-fighting viruses. The trial will test the safety of a virus that has been engineered to shrink tumours \u2013 an approach that holds promise for a range of cancers, including deadly brain tumours. Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89935","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}