{"id":58514,"date":"2019-11-15T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T07:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=58514"},"modified":"2019-11-15T07:00:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T07:00:49","slug":"scientists-successfully-create-cowpox-style-virus-that-can-kill-all-types-of-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2019\/11\/15\/scientists-successfully-create-cowpox-style-virus-that-can-kill-all-types-of-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists successfully create cowpox-style virus that can kill all types of cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a breakthrough development in the world of medicine, scientists have managed to develop a new virus based on cowpox that is able to kill every known type of cancer cell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The treatment, called\u00a0CF33, can kill every type of cancer in a petrie dish and has shrunk tumours in mice,\u00a0The Daily Telegraph\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>US cancer expert Professor Yuman Fong is engineering the treatment, which is being developed by\u00a0Australia biotech company Imugene. They are hoping the treatment will be tested on breast cancer patients, among other cancer sufferers, next year.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patients&nbsp;with triple negative breast cancer, melanoma, lung cancer, bladder, gastric and bowel cancer would be tested in the &#8216;basket study&#8217;.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Success with mice does not ensure the virus will be able to treat humans, but&nbsp; Professor Fong remains positive, as other&nbsp;specific viruses have been effective in fighting cancer in humans.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more here: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7664927\/Breakthrough-scientists-create-new-cowpox-style-virus-kill-type-cancer.html (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7664927\/Breakthrough-scientists-create-new-cowpox-style-virus-kill-type-cancer.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7664927\/Breakthrough-scientists-create-new-cowpox-style-virus-kill-type-cancer.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a breakthrough development in the world of medicine, scientists have managed to develop a new virus based on cowpox that is able to kill every known type of cancer cell. The treatment, called\u00a0CF33, can kill every type of cancer in a petrie dish and has shrunk tumours in mice,\u00a0The Daily Telegraph\u00a0reported. US cancer expert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}