{"id":92591,"date":"2019-06-24T12:03:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T19:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/cancer-patients-welcome-breakthrough-living-drug-that-reprograms-immune-systems-to-fight-disease"},"modified":"2019-06-24T12:03:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T19:03:04","slug":"cancer-patients-welcome-breakthrough-living-drug-that-reprograms-immune-systems-to-fight-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/cancer-patients-welcome-breakthrough-living-drug-that-reprograms-immune-systems-to-fight-disease","title":{"rendered":"Cancer patients welcome breakthrough \u2018living drug\u2019 that reprograms immune systems to fight disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cancer-patients-welcome-breakthrough-living-drug-that-reprograms-immune-systems-to-fight-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a groundbreaking treatment, cancer patients\u2019 immune systems are being genetically reprogrammed to fight their terminal cancer for them, with promising results.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK, a number of National Health Service (NHS) patients with lymphoma at King\u2019s College Hospital have been given CAR-T, a <em>\u201cliving drug\u201d<\/em> that is unique to each patient as it contains some of their own cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a groundbreaking treatment, cancer patients\u2019 immune systems are being genetically reprogrammed to fight their terminal cancer for them, with promising results. In the UK, a number of National Health Service (NHS) patients with lymphoma at King\u2019s College Hospital have been given CAR-T, a \u201cliving drug\u201d that is unique to each patient as it contains [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92591","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}