{"id":186981,"date":"2024-04-08T10:23:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T15:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/israeli-scientists-find-new-way-to-treat-cancer"},"modified":"2024-04-08T10:23:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T15:23:44","slug":"israeli-scientists-find-new-way-to-treat-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/israeli-scientists-find-new-way-to-treat-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Scientists Find New Way to Treat Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/israeli-scientists-find-new-way-to-treat-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Israeli <a href=\"https:\/\/jewishbusinessnews.com\/topics\/new-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scientists<\/a> have made yet another cancer treatment breakthrough, this time using nanosized polymers. Researchers from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgu.ac.il\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Gurion University<\/a> say they developed a way to selectively deliver chemotherapeutic drugs to blood vessels that feed tumors and metastases.<\/p>\n<p>The polymer eliminates colorectal cancer liver metastases and prolongs mice survival, after a single dose-therapy, they said. The findings were published in Nano Today, a leading journal in the field of nanotechnology.<\/p>\n<p>A nanosized polymer is a polymer that has been engineered to have dimensions in the nanometer range. By comparison, a human hair is about 80,000\u2013100,000 nanometers wide. These tiny particles offer unique properties that make them desirable for a wide range of applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli scientists have made yet another cancer treatment breakthrough, this time using nanosized polymers. Researchers from Ben Gurion University say they developed a way to selectively deliver chemotherapeutic drugs to blood vessels that feed tumors and metastases. The polymer eliminates colorectal cancer liver metastases and prolongs mice survival, after a single dose-therapy, they said. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186981","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}