{"id":233052,"date":"2026-03-11T07:28:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/nanohydrogels-steer-cancer-drugs-to-tumors-aiming-to-spare-healthy-tissue"},"modified":"2026-03-11T07:28:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:28:02","slug":"nanohydrogels-steer-cancer-drugs-to-tumors-aiming-to-spare-healthy-tissue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/nanohydrogels-steer-cancer-drugs-to-tumors-aiming-to-spare-healthy-tissue","title":{"rendered":"Nanohydrogels steer cancer drugs to tumors, aiming to spare healthy tissue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanohydrogels-steer-cancer-drugs-to-tumors-aiming-to-spare-healthy-tissue.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Exhaustion creeps in. Appetite vanishes. Hair thins. The person in the mirror looks gaunt. It\u2019s the paradox of cancer treatment: The same drugs meant to save a life can also wear the body down. Nick Housley, assistant professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Biological Sciences, wants to change that. He studies where cancer drugs go once they\u2019re inside the body, including places they were never intended to reach. Some of the medicine finds the tumor. The rest interacts with healthy tissue.<\/p>\n<p>This approach has saved millions of lives. It can also create punishing side effects. \u201cThe problem isn\u2019t that these drugs don\u2019t work,\u201d said Housley. \u201cIt\u2019s that they affect far more of the body than they need to.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exhaustion creeps in. Appetite vanishes. Hair thins. The person in the mirror looks gaunt. It\u2019s the paradox of cancer treatment: The same drugs meant to save a life can also wear the body down. Nick Housley, assistant professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Biological Sciences, wants to change that. He studies where cancer drugs go [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233052","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}