{"id":90922,"date":"2019-05-17T18:42:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T01:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/genetically-engineered-immune-cells-fight-off-deadly-virus-in-mice"},"modified":"2019-05-17T18:42:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T01:42:37","slug":"genetically-engineered-immune-cells-fight-off-deadly-virus-in-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/genetically-engineered-immune-cells-fight-off-deadly-virus-in-mice","title":{"rendered":"Genetically engineered immune cells fight off deadly virus in mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genetically-engineered-immune-cells-fight-off-deadly-virus-in-mice2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers may have demonstrated a novel way to protect us from some of the world\u2019s deadliest viruses. By genetically engineering immune cells to make more effective antibodies, they have defended mice from a potentially lethal lung virus. The same strategy could work in humans against diseases for which there are no vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a huge breakthrough,\u201d says immunologist James Voss of the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California, who wasn\u2019t connected to the study.<\/p>\n<p>Vaccines typically contain a disabled microbial invader or shards of its molecules. They stimulate immune cells known as B cells to crank out antibodies that target the pathogen. Not everyone who receives a vaccine gains protection, however. Some patients\u2019 antibodies aren\u2019t up to snuff, for instance. And researchers haven\u2019t been able to develop vaccines against some microbes, such as HIV and the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which causes lung infections mainly in children and people with impaired immune systems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2019\/05\/genetically-engineered-immune-cells-fight-deadly-virus-mice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers may have demonstrated a novel way to protect us from some of the world\u2019s deadliest viruses. By genetically engineering immune cells to make more effective antibodies, they have defended mice from a potentially lethal lung virus. The same strategy could work in humans against diseases for which there are no vaccines. \u201cIt\u2019s a huge [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90922","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=90922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}