{"id":142065,"date":"2022-07-11T23:24:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T04:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/scientists-have-engineered-parasitic-worms-that-can-kill-cancer-cells"},"modified":"2022-07-11T23:24:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T04:24:17","slug":"scientists-have-engineered-parasitic-worms-that-can-kill-cancer-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/scientists-have-engineered-parasitic-worms-that-can-kill-cancer-cells","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Engineered Parasitic Worms That Can Kill Cancer Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-engineered-parasitic-worms-that-can-kill-cancer-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nematodes, a specific sort of microscopic worm, have been proven by Osaka University researchers to be capable of killing cancer cells, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/engineered-parasitic-worms-kill-cancer-cells\" rel=\"nofollow\">Interesting Engineering<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/scientists-have-created-worms-that-can-kill-cancer-cells\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">SciTechDaily<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2590006422001260?via%3Dihub\" rel=\"nofollow\">study<\/a> titled \u201cNematode surface functionalization with hydrogel sheaths tailored in situ\u201d by Wildan Mubarok, Masaki Nakahata, Masaru Kojima and Shinji Sakai showed that Hydrogel-based \u201csheaths\u201d that can be further modified to transport useful cargo (cancer-killing substances) could be applied to these worms as a coating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nematodes, a specific sort of microscopic worm, have been proven by Osaka University researchers to be capable of killing cancer cells, according to Interesting Engineering and SciTechDaily. The study titled \u201cNematode surface functionalization with hydrogel sheaths tailored in situ\u201d by Wildan Mubarok, Masaki Nakahata, Masaru Kojima and Shinji Sakai showed that Hydrogel-based \u201csheaths\u201d that can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142065","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\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}