{"id":174150,"date":"2023-10-14T02:14:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T07:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/researchers-develop-novel-tumor-targeting-nanospheres-to-improve-light-based-cancer-diagnosis-and-treatment"},"modified":"2023-10-14T02:14:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T07:14:34","slug":"researchers-develop-novel-tumor-targeting-nanospheres-to-improve-light-based-cancer-diagnosis-and-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/researchers-develop-novel-tumor-targeting-nanospheres-to-improve-light-based-cancer-diagnosis-and-treatment","title":{"rendered":"Researchers develop novel tumor-targeting nanospheres to improve light-based cancer diagnosis and treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-develop-novel-tumor-targeting-nanospheres-to-improve-light-based-cancer-diagnosis-and-treatment2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a breakthrough in cancer therapeutics, a team of researchers at the Magzoub Biophysics Lab at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) has made a significant advance in light-based therapies\u2014biocompatible and biodegradable tumor-targeting nanospheres that combine tumor detection and monitoring with potent, light-triggered cancer therapy to dramatically increase the efficacy of existing light-based approaches.<\/p>\n<p>Non-invasive, light-based therapies, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/photodynamic+therapy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">photodynamic therapy<\/a> (PDT) and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/photothermal+therapy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">photothermal therapy<\/a> (PTT) have the potential to be safe and effective alternatives to conventional <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cancer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cancer<\/a> treatments, which are beset by a number of issues, including a range of side-effects and post-treatment complications.<\/p>\n<p>However, to date, the development of effective light-based technologies for cancer has been hindered by poor solubility, low stability, and lack of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/tumor\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">tumor<\/a> specificity, among other challenges. Nanocarriers designed to deliver PDT and PTT more effectively have also proven to have significant limitations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a breakthrough in cancer therapeutics, a team of researchers at the Magzoub Biophysics Lab at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) has made a significant advance in light-based therapies\u2014biocompatible and biodegradable tumor-targeting nanospheres that combine tumor detection and monitoring with potent, light-triggered cancer therapy to dramatically increase the efficacy of existing light-based approaches. Non-invasive, light-based therapies, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174150","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=174150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}