{"id":20716,"date":"2016-01-13T13:31:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T21:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/dna-lock-and-key-allows-for-precision-drug-delivery-to-target-cancer-and-other-cells"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:16:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:16:00","slug":"dna-lock-and-key-allows-for-precision-drug-delivery-to-target-cancer-and-other-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/dna-lock-and-key-allows-for-precision-drug-delivery-to-target-cancer-and-other-cells","title":{"rendered":"DNA \u2018lock and key\u2019 allows for precision drug delivery to target cancer and other cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dna-lock-and-key-allows-for-precision-drug-delivery-to-target-cancer-and-other-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>DNA-based lock-and-key pore design allows for precision delivery of drugs to cancer and other cells (credit: Stefan Howorka and Jonathan Burns\/UCL)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at University College London (UCL) and Nanion Technologies in Munich have developed synthetic DNA-based pores that control which molecules can pass through a cell\u2019s wall, achieving more precise drug delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Therapeutics, including anti-cancer drugs, are ferried around the body in nanoscale carriers called vesicles, targeted to different tissues using biological markers. The new DNA-based pore design is intended to improve that process.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/dna-lock-and-key-allows-for-precision-drug-delivery-to-target-cancer-and-other-cells\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNA-based lock-and-key pore design allows for precision delivery of drugs to cancer and other cells (credit: Stefan Howorka and Jonathan Burns\/UCL) Scientists at University College London (UCL) and Nanion Technologies in Munich have developed synthetic DNA-based pores that control which molecules can pass through a cell\u2019s wall, achieving more precise drug delivery. Therapeutics, including anti-cancer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20716","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\/20716","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68852,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20716\/revisions\/68852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}