{"id":98070,"date":"2019-11-02T12:04:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T19:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/science-author-digs-into-the-story-about-a-revolutionary-cancer-treatment-used-in-immunotherapy"},"modified":"2019-11-02T12:04:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T19:04:41","slug":"science-author-digs-into-the-story-about-a-revolutionary-cancer-treatment-used-in-immunotherapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/science-author-digs-into-the-story-about-a-revolutionary-cancer-treatment-used-in-immunotherapy","title":{"rendered":"Science author digs into the story about a revolutionary cancer treatment used in immunotherapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/science-author-digs-into-the-story-about-a-revolutionary-cancer-treatment-used-in-immunotherapy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unlike chemotherapy or radiation, which attack cancer directly, CAR-T engineers patients\u2019 immune cells so they can do it themselves. T-cells are removed from the blood and given new genes that produce receptors that let the T-cells recognize and bind to leukemia cells with a specific protein, CD19.<\/p>\n<p>The genetically modified T-cells are then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.gov\/about-cancer\/treatment\/research\/car-t-cells\" title=\"www.cancer.gov\">multiplied in the lab<\/a> and infused back into the patient, where they ideally multiply even further and begin to target and kill cancer cells with CD19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike chemotherapy or radiation, which attack cancer directly, CAR-T engineers patients\u2019 immune cells so they can do it themselves. T-cells are removed from the blood and given new genes that produce receptors that let the T-cells recognize and bind to leukemia cells with a specific protein, CD19. The genetically modified T-cells are then multiplied in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98070","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=98070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}