{"id":163679,"date":"2023-05-11T12:23:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T17:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/cell-nanobot-breakthrough-shines-light-on-cause-of-aggressive-cancers"},"modified":"2023-05-11T12:23:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T17:23:43","slug":"cell-nanobot-breakthrough-shines-light-on-cause-of-aggressive-cancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/cell-nanobot-breakthrough-shines-light-on-cause-of-aggressive-cancers","title":{"rendered":"Cell \u2018nanobot\u2019 breakthrough shines light on cause of aggressive cancers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cell-nanobot-breakthrough-shines-light-on-cause-of-aggressive-cancers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have uncovered the inner workings of one of the most important and intricate \u201cnanobots\u201d operating within our cells by using cutting-edge microscopy for visualizing molecules almost at an atomic level.<\/p>\n<p>Their new study published in <i>Nature<\/i> has unveiled the critical step that switches on the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/spliceosome\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">spliceosome <\/a>\u2014a piece of cellular machinery that enables cells to build complex proteins.<\/p>\n<p>By uncovering in detail how the spliceosome is activated, scientists believe the discovery could pave the way to more effective designs for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cancer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cancer<\/a> drugs that target it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have uncovered the inner workings of one of the most important and intricate \u201cnanobots\u201d operating within our cells by using cutting-edge microscopy for visualizing molecules almost at an atomic level. Their new study published in Nature has unveiled the critical step that switches on the spliceosome \u2014a piece of cellular machinery that enables cells [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163679","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\/163679","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}