{"id":179537,"date":"2023-12-30T20:23:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T02:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/molecular-jackhammers-good-vibrations-eradicate-cancer-cells"},"modified":"2023-12-30T20:23:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T02:23:24","slug":"molecular-jackhammers-good-vibrations-eradicate-cancer-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/molecular-jackhammers-good-vibrations-eradicate-cancer-cells","title":{"rendered":"Molecular jackhammers\u2019 \u2018good vibrations\u2019 eradicate cancer cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/molecular-jackhammers-good-vibrations-eradicate-cancer-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rice University scientists and collaborators at Texas A&amp;M University and University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have found a new way to kill cancer cells by using near-infrared light to make a small dye molecule attached to their membrane vibrate strongly. It is the first time this kind of mechanical molecular action has been used as a potential therapy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rice University scientists and collaborators at Texas A&amp;M University and University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have found a new way to kill cancer cells by using near-infrared light to make a small dye molecule attached to their membrane vibrate strongly. It is the first time this kind of mechanical molecular action has been [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179537","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=179537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}