{"id":183239,"date":"2024-02-21T03:26:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T09:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/new-computer-model-of-lung-tissue-could-herald-safer-radiotherapy-for-cancer"},"modified":"2024-02-21T03:26:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T09:26:32","slug":"new-computer-model-of-lung-tissue-could-herald-safer-radiotherapy-for-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/new-computer-model-of-lung-tissue-could-herald-safer-radiotherapy-for-cancer","title":{"rendered":"New computer model of lung tissue could herald safer radiotherapy for cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-computer-model-of-lung-tissue-could-herald-safer-radiotherapy-for-cancer3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An innovative computer model of a human lung is helping scientists simulate, for the first time, how a burst of radiation interacts with the organ on a cell-by-cell level.<\/p>\n<p>This research, carried out at the University of Surrey and GSI Helmholtzzentrum f\u00fcr Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, could lead to more targeted treatments for <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cancer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cancer<\/a> and reduce the damage caused by <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/radiotherapy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">radiotherapy<\/a>. The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s43856-024-00442-w\">published<\/a> in the journal Communications Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Roman Bauer, Senior Lecturer at the University of Surrey, said, \u201cDoctors could one day use our model to choose the right length and strength of radiotherapy\u2014tailored to their patient. This is exciting enough\u2014but others could use our technique to study other organs. This could unlock all kinds of medical knowledge and could be great news for <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/doctors\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">doctors<\/a> and future patients.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An innovative computer model of a human lung is helping scientists simulate, for the first time, how a burst of radiation interacts with the organ on a cell-by-cell level. This research, carried out at the University of Surrey and GSI Helmholtzzentrum f\u00fcr Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, could lead to more targeted treatments for cancer and reduce the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183239","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}