{"id":13278,"date":"2015-01-17T10:45:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T18:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13278"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:08:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:08:56","slug":"can-dna-nanobots-successfully-treat-cancer-patients-first-human-trial-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/can-dna-nanobots-successfully-treat-cancer-patients-first-human-trial-soon","title":{"rendered":"Can DNA Nanobots Successfully Treat Cancer Patients? First Human Trial Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a title=\"Posts by Jason Dorrier\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/jdorrier\/\" rel=\"author\">Jason Dorrier<\/a> \u2013SingularityHUB<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P0\">\u201cNo, no it\u2019s not science fiction; it\u2019s already happening,\u201d said Ido Bachelet to a somewhat incredulous audience member at a London event late last year. Bachelet, previously of Harvard\u2019s Wyss Institute and faculty member at Israel\u2019s Bar-Ilan University, is a leading figure in the field of DNA nanotechnology.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P1\">In a brief talk, Bachelet said DNA nanobots will soon be tried in a critically ill leukemia patient. The patient, who has been given roughly six months to live, will receive an injection of DNA nanobots designed to interact with and destroy leukemia cells\u2014while causing virtually zero collateral damage in healthy tissue.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P2\">According to Bachelet, his team have successfully tested their method in cell cultures and animals and written two papers on the subject, one in <em>Science <\/em>and one in <em>Nature<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2015\/01\/08\/can-dna-nanobots-successfully-treat-cancer-patient-first-human-trial-soon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jason Dorrier \u2013SingularityHUB \u201cNo, no it\u2019s not science fiction; it\u2019s already happening,\u201d said Ido Bachelet to a somewhat incredulous audience member at a London event late last year. Bachelet, previously of Harvard\u2019s Wyss Institute and faculty member at Israel\u2019s Bar-Ilan University, is a leading figure in the field of DNA nanotechnology. In a brief [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13278","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46653,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13278\/revisions\/46653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}