{"id":156686,"date":"2023-01-31T15:22:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T21:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/a-completely-new-way-to-kill-cancer-artificial-dna"},"modified":"2023-01-31T15:22:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T21:22:37","slug":"a-completely-new-way-to-kill-cancer-artificial-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/a-completely-new-way-to-kill-cancer-artificial-dna","title":{"rendered":"A Completely New Way To Kill Cancer: Artificial DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-completely-new-way-to-kill-cancer-artificial-dna.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research group at the University of Tokyo, led by Assistant Professor Kunihiko Morihiro and Professor Akimitsu Okamoto from the Graduate School of Engineering, were inspired to create a new anticancer drug using artificial DNA. \u201cWe thought that if we can create new drugs that work by a different mechanism of action from that of conventional drugs, they may be effective against cancers that have been untreatable up to now,\u201d said Okamoto.<\/p>\n<p>Nucleic acid.<\/p>\n<p>Any substance that when dissolved in water, gives a pH less than 7.0, or donates a hydrogen ion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research group at the University of Tokyo, led by Assistant Professor Kunihiko Morihiro and Professor Akimitsu Okamoto from the Graduate School of Engineering, were inspired to create a new anticancer drug using artificial DNA. \u201cWe thought that if we can create new drugs that work by a different mechanism of action from that of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156686","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}