{"id":193011,"date":"2024-07-15T23:22:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T04:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/caught-in-the-actinium-new-research-could-help-design-better-cancer-treatments"},"modified":"2024-07-15T23:22:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T04:22:53","slug":"caught-in-the-actinium-new-research-could-help-design-better-cancer-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/caught-in-the-actinium-new-research-could-help-design-better-cancer-treatments","title":{"rendered":"Caught in the actinium: New research could help design better cancer treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/caught-in-the-actinium-new-research-could-help-design-better-cancer-treatments2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The element actinium was first discovered at the turn of the 20th century, but even now, nearly 125 years later, researchers still don\u2019t have a good grasp on the metal\u2019s chemistry. That\u2019s because actinium is only available in extremely small amounts and working with the radioactive material requires special facilities. But to improve emerging cancer treatments using actinium, researchers will need to better understand how the element binds with other molecules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The element actinium was first discovered at the turn of the 20th century, but even now, nearly 125 years later, researchers still don\u2019t have a good grasp on the metal\u2019s chemistry. That\u2019s because actinium is only available in extremely small amounts and working with the radioactive material requires special facilities. But to improve emerging cancer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193011","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}