{"id":189491,"date":"2024-05-15T23:22:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T04:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/why-a-new-inhalable-lung-cancer-treatment-is-so-promising"},"modified":"2024-05-15T23:22:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T04:22:24","slug":"why-a-new-inhalable-lung-cancer-treatment-is-so-promising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/why-a-new-inhalable-lung-cancer-treatment-is-so-promising","title":{"rendered":"Why a New Inhalable Lung Cancer Treatment Is So Promising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-a-new-inhalable-lung-cancer-treatment-is-so-promising.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cells in the human body <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC8833672\/\">chat with each other<\/a> all the time. One major way they communicate is by releasing tiny spheres called exosomes. These carry fats, proteins, and genetic material that help regulate everything from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S014340042300156X\">pregnancy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC9885214\/\">immune responses<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC10142472\/\">heart health<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/pharmacology\/articles\/10.3389\/fphar.2019.01655\/full\">kidney function<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a new Columbia University study in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41565-023-01580-3\"><em>Nature Nanotechnology<\/em><\/a> demonstrated that these \u201cnanobubbles\u201d can deliver potent immunotherapy directly to tough-to-treat lung cancer tumors via inhalation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExosomes work like text messages between cells, sending and receiving information,\u201d said lead researcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineering.columbia.edu\/ke-cheng\">Ke Cheng<\/a>, PhD, professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia. \u201cThe significance of this study is that exosomes can bring mRNA-based treatment to lung cancer cells locally, unlike systemic chemotherapy that can have side effects throughout the body. And inhalation is totally noninvasive. You don\u2019t need a nurse to use an IV needle to pierce your skin.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cells in the human body chat with each other all the time. One major way they communicate is by releasing tiny spheres called exosomes. These carry fats, proteins, and genetic material that help regulate everything from pregnancy and immune responses to heart health and kidney function. Now, a new Columbia University study in Nature Nanotechnology [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189491","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=189491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}