{"id":197354,"date":"2024-10-10T03:22:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T08:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/aston-university-develops-novel-bone-cancer-therapy-which-has-99-success-rate"},"modified":"2024-10-10T03:22:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T08:22:26","slug":"aston-university-develops-novel-bone-cancer-therapy-which-has-99-success-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/aston-university-develops-novel-bone-cancer-therapy-which-has-99-success-rate","title":{"rendered":"Aston University develops novel bone cancer therapy which has 99% success rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/aston-university-develops-novel-bone-cancer-therapy-which-has-99-success-rate2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bioactive glasses, a filling material which can bond to tissue and improve the strength of bones and teeth, has been combined with gallium to create a potential treatment for bone cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Tests in labs have found that bioactive glasses doped with the metal have a 99 percent success rate of eliminating cancerous cells and can even regenerate diseased bones.<\/p>\n<p>The research was conducted by a team of Aston University scientists led by <a href=\"https:\/\/research.aston.ac.uk\/en\/persons\/richard-martin\">Professor Richard Martin<\/a> who is based in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aston.ac.uk\/eps#:~:text=College%20of%20Engineering%20and%20Physical%20Sciences.%20The%20College\">College of Engineering and Physical Sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bioactive glasses, a filling material which can bond to tissue and improve the strength of bones and teeth, has been combined with gallium to create a potential treatment for bone cancer. Tests in labs have found that bioactive glasses doped with the metal have a 99 percent success rate of eliminating cancerous cells and can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197354","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}