{"id":172411,"date":"2023-09-20T00:26:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T05:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/drug-delivery-platform-leverages-air-filled-protein-nanostructures-and-uses-sound-for-targeting"},"modified":"2023-09-20T00:26:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T05:26:07","slug":"drug-delivery-platform-leverages-air-filled-protein-nanostructures-and-uses-sound-for-targeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/drug-delivery-platform-leverages-air-filled-protein-nanostructures-and-uses-sound-for-targeting","title":{"rendered":"Drug delivery platform leverages air-filled protein nanostructures and uses sound for targeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/drug-delivery-platform-leverages-air-filled-protein-nanostructures-and-uses-sound-for-targeting3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chemotherapy as a treatment for cancer is one of the major medical success stories of the 20th century, but it\u2019s far from perfect. Anyone who has been through chemotherapy or who has had a friend or loved one go through it will be familiar with its many side effects: hair loss, nausea, weakened immune system, and even infertility and nerve damage.<\/p>\n<p>This is because <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemotherapy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemotherapy<\/a> drugs are toxic. They\u2019re meant to kill cancer cells by poisoning them, but since <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cancer+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cancer cells<\/a> derive from healthy cells and are substantially similar to them, it is difficult to create a drug that kills them without also harming healthy tissue.<\/p>\n<p>But now a pair of Caltech research teams have created an entirely new kind of drug delivery system, one that they say may finally give doctors the ability to treat cancer in a more targeted way. The system employs drugs that are activated by <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/ultrasound\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ultrasound <\/a>\u2014and only right where they are needed in the body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemotherapy as a treatment for cancer is one of the major medical success stories of the 20th century, but it\u2019s far from perfect. Anyone who has been through chemotherapy or who has had a friend or loved one go through it will be familiar with its many side effects: hair loss, nausea, weakened immune system, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172411","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\/172411","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}