{"id":155941,"date":"2023-01-21T17:22:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T23:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/in-the-core-of-the-cell-new-insights-into-the-utilization-of-nanotechnology-based-drugs"},"modified":"2023-01-21T17:22:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T23:22:42","slug":"in-the-core-of-the-cell-new-insights-into-the-utilization-of-nanotechnology-based-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/in-the-core-of-the-cell-new-insights-into-the-utilization-of-nanotechnology-based-drugs","title":{"rendered":"In the core of the cell: New insights into the utilization of nanotechnology-based drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-the-core-of-the-cell-new-insights-into-the-utilization-of-nanotechnology-based-drugs2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Novel drugs, such as vaccines against COVID-19, among others, are based on drug transport using nanoparticles. Whether this drug transport is negatively influenced by an accumulation of blood proteins on the nanoparticle\u2019s surface was not clarified for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research have now followed the path of such a particle into a cell using a combination of several microscopy methods. They were able to observe a cell-internal process that effectively separates blood components and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nanoparticles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nanoparticles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nanoparticles are a current field of research and it is impossible to imagine <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/modern+medicine\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">modern medicine<\/a> without them. They serve as microscopic drug capsules that are less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter. Among other things, they are used in current vaccines against COVID-19 to effectively deliver active ingredients to where they are actually needed. In most cases, the capsules dock onto cells, are enveloped by them, and are absorbed into them. Inside the cell, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+processes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical processes<\/a> can then open the capsules, releasing the active ingredient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novel drugs, such as vaccines against COVID-19, among others, are based on drug transport using nanoparticles. Whether this drug transport is negatively influenced by an accumulation of blood proteins on the nanoparticle\u2019s surface was not clarified for a long time. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research have now followed the path of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155941","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}