{"id":99165,"date":"2019-11-29T16:22:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T00:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/beating-cancer-how-viruses-are-being-used-to-infect-and-kill-tumours"},"modified":"2019-11-29T16:22:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T00:22:46","slug":"beating-cancer-how-viruses-are-being-used-to-infect-and-kill-tumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/beating-cancer-how-viruses-are-being-used-to-infect-and-kill-tumours","title":{"rendered":"Beating cancer: How viruses are being used to infect and kill tumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/beating-cancer-how-viruses-are-being-used-to-infect-and-kill-tumours2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve long known that viruses can target cancers in our bodies. Now, thanks to gene editing, we\u2019re using them as tumour search and destroy agents \u2013 and getting our immune systems to join the fight too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve long known that viruses can target cancers in our bodies. Now, thanks to gene editing, we\u2019re using them as tumour search and destroy agents \u2013 and getting our immune systems to join the fight too.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99165","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=99165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}