{"id":127830,"date":"2021-09-18T21:23:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T04:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/quantum-physics-helps-destroy-cancer-cells"},"modified":"2021-09-18T21:23:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T04:23:43","slug":"quantum-physics-helps-destroy-cancer-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/quantum-physics-helps-destroy-cancer-cells","title":{"rendered":"Quantum physics helps destroy cancer cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-physics-helps-destroy-cancer-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cancer cell death is triggered within three days when X-rays are shone onto tumor tissue containing iodine-carrying nanoparticles. The iodine releases electrons that break the tumor\u2019s DNA, leading to cell death. The findings, by scientists at Kyoto University\u2019s Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) and colleagues in Japan and the US, were published in the journal <em>Scientific Reports<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExposing a metal to light leads to the release of electrons, a phenomenon called the photoelectric effect. An explanation of this phenomenon by Albert Einstein in 1905 heralded the birth of quantum physics,\u201d says iCeMS molecular biologist Fuyuhiko Tamanoi, who led the study. \u201cOur research provides evidence that suggests it is possible to reproduce this effect inside cancer cells.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A long-standing problem with cancer radiation therapy is that it is not effective at the center of tumors where oxygen levels are low due to the lack of blood vessels penetrating deeply into the tissue. X-ray irradiation needs oxygen to generate DNA-damaging reactive oxygen when the rays hit molecules inside the cell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cancer cell death is triggered within three days when X-rays are shone onto tumor tissue containing iodine-carrying nanoparticles. The iodine releases electrons that break the tumor\u2019s DNA, leading to cell death. The findings, by scientists at Kyoto University\u2019s Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) and colleagues in Japan and the US, were published in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127830","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=127830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}