{"id":231085,"date":"2026-02-11T01:36:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/new-nanoparticles-remove-melanoma-tumors-in-mice-with-low-power-near-infrared-laser"},"modified":"2026-02-11T01:36:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:36:39","slug":"new-nanoparticles-remove-melanoma-tumors-in-mice-with-low-power-near-infrared-laser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/new-nanoparticles-remove-melanoma-tumors-in-mice-with-low-power-near-infrared-laser","title":{"rendered":"New nanoparticles remove melanoma tumors in mice with low-power near-infrared laser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-nanoparticles-remove-melanoma-tumors-in-mice-with-low-power-near-infrared-laser.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Oregon State University have developed and tested in a mouse model a new type of nanoparticle that enables the removal of melanoma tumors with a low-power laser. After the systemically administered nanoparticles accumulate in cancerous tissue, exposure to near-infrared light causes them to heat up and destroy the melanoma cells, leaving healthy tissue unharmed.<\/p>\n<p>The study led by Olena Taratula and Prem Singh of the Oregon State University College of Pharmacy represents a huge step toward solving a persistent problem with using photothermal therapy to treat melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer: Conventional nanoparticles require lasers with power densities that are unsafe for the skin. Findings were published in <a href=\"https:\/\/advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/adfm.202522663\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Advanced Functional Materials<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Taratula, associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences, and Singh, a postdoctoral researcher in Taratula\u2019s lab, based their new <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-10-star-shaped-nanoparticles-cancer.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">theranostic platform <\/a>\u2014it can be used for both treatment and diagnosis\u2014on gold nanorods. The nanorods are coated with an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-03-precision-cancer-treatment-magnet-nanoparticles.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">iron-cobalt shell<\/a> and tightly loaded with a dye that heats up upon exposure to near-infrared light\u2014invisible, low-frequency radiation able to penetrate deeply into human tissue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Oregon State University have developed and tested in a mouse model a new type of nanoparticle that enables the removal of melanoma tumors with a low-power laser. After the systemically administered nanoparticles accumulate in cancerous tissue, exposure to near-infrared light causes them to heat up and destroy the melanoma cells, leaving healthy tissue [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231085","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\/231085","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}