{"id":179534,"date":"2023-12-30T18:22:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T00:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/scientists-destroy-99-of-cancer-cells-with-groundbreaking-new-method"},"modified":"2023-12-30T18:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T00:22:25","slug":"scientists-destroy-99-of-cancer-cells-with-groundbreaking-new-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/scientists-destroy-99-of-cancer-cells-with-groundbreaking-new-method","title":{"rendered":"Scientists destroy 99% of cancer cells with groundbreaking new method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-destroy-99-of-cancer-cells-with-groundbreaking-new-method.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A special form of molecule has been found to \u201ctear apart\u201d the membranes of <a href=\"http:\/\/indy100.com\/topic\/cancer\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> cancer cells<\/a> once activated, a promising new study by scientists at Rice University in <a href=\"http:\/\/indy100.com\/topic\/texas\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> Texas<\/a> has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Known as aminocyanine molecules \u2013 and commonly used as synthetic dyes in medical imaging \u2013 their atoms can vibrate in unison and form a \u201cplasmon\u201d when hit with near-infrared light, causing cancer cells\u2019 membranes to rupture.<\/p>\n<p>And this treatment \u2013 through the use of what researchers are calling \u201cmolecular jackhammers\u201d \u2013 is unbelievably effective, going by the study\u2019s results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special form of molecule has been found to \u201ctear apart\u201d the membranes of cancer cells once activated, a promising new study by scientists at Rice University in Texas has revealed. Known as aminocyanine molecules \u2013 and commonly used as synthetic dyes in medical imaging \u2013 their atoms can vibrate in unison and form a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179534","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}