{"id":100237,"date":"2019-12-28T11:24:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T19:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/scientists-race-to-use-zero-gravity-to-kill-the-worst-cancers"},"modified":"2019-12-28T11:24:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T19:24:34","slug":"scientists-race-to-use-zero-gravity-to-kill-the-worst-cancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/scientists-race-to-use-zero-gravity-to-kill-the-worst-cancers","title":{"rendered":"Scientists race to use zero gravity to kill the worst cancers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U4ol83GpNdM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The device has allowed Chou\u2019s team to investigate how microgravity affects different diseases. The scientists report it has been tremendously effective so far in eliminating cancer cells.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhen placed in a microgravity environment, <strong>80 to 90 per cent <\/strong>of the cells in the <strong>four<\/strong><strong> different <\/strong>cancer types we tested \u2013 ovarian, breast, nose and lung \u2013 were disabled,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uts.edu.au\/news\/health-science\/new-cancer-hope-defies-gravity\" target=\"_blank\"> said Chou.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Normally, these are the hardest cancers to fight. Chou\u2019s experiments, without using any drugs, managed to either kill such cells or make them \u201cfloat off because they can no longer hold on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The device has allowed Chou\u2019s team to investigate how microgravity affects different diseases. The scientists report it has been tremendously effective so far in eliminating cancer cells. \u201cWhen placed in a microgravity environment, 80 to 90 per cent of the cells in the four different cancer types we tested \u2013 ovarian, breast, nose and lung [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100237","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\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}