{"id":185748,"date":"2024-03-22T10:23:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T15:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/nanosurgical-tool-could-be-key-to-cancer-breakthrough"},"modified":"2024-03-22T10:23:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T15:23:10","slug":"nanosurgical-tool-could-be-key-to-cancer-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/nanosurgical-tool-could-be-key-to-cancer-breakthrough","title":{"rendered":"Nanosurgical Tool could be Key to Cancer Breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanosurgical-tool-could-be-key-to-cancer-breakthrough2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A groundbreaking nanosurgical tool \u2014 about 500 times thinner than a human hair \u2014 could be transformative for cancer research and give insights into treatment resistance that no other technology has been able to do, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>The high-tech double-barrel nanopipette, developed by University of Leeds scientists, and applied to the global medical challenge of cancer, has \u2014 for the first time \u2014 enabled researchers to see how individual living cancer cells react to treatment and change over time \u2014 providing vital understanding that could help doctors develop more effective cancer medication.<\/p>\n<p>The tool has two nanoscopic needles, meaning it can simultaneously inject and extract a sample from the same cell, expanding its potential uses. And the platform\u2019s high level of semi-automation has sped up the process dramatically, enabling scientists to extract data from many more individual cells, with far greater accuracy and efficiency than previously possible, the study shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A groundbreaking nanosurgical tool \u2014 about 500 times thinner than a human hair \u2014 could be transformative for cancer research and give insights into treatment resistance that no other technology has been able to do, according to a new study. The high-tech double-barrel nanopipette, developed by University of Leeds scientists, and applied to the global [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185748","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}