{"id":239623,"date":"2026-06-25T15:13:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/sugar-coated-nanoparticles-show-promise-for-treating-most-aggressive-form-of-brain-cancer"},"modified":"2026-06-25T15:13:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:13:02","slug":"sugar-coated-nanoparticles-show-promise-for-treating-most-aggressive-form-of-brain-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/sugar-coated-nanoparticles-show-promise-for-treating-most-aggressive-form-of-brain-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Sugar-coated nanoparticles show promise for treating most aggressive form of brain cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sugar-coated-nanoparticles-show-promise-for-treating-most-aggressive-form-of-brain-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Oregon State University have potentially found a new way to treat the most aggressive form of brain cancer, glioblastoma, whose two-year survival rate is less than 30%.<\/p>\n<p>The study, led by Oleh Taratula, Olena Taratula and Yoon Tae Goo of the OSU College of Pharmacy, addresses what they describe as the two most persistent obstacles to effective glioblastoma treatment: delivering therapeutic agents through the blood-brain barrier, the cell network that acts as a security checkpoint between the bloodstream and the central nervous system, and then getting those agents to preferentially target tumors.<\/p>\n<p>In research published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0168365926005109\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Journal of Controlled Release<\/i><\/a>, the scientists demonstrate the novel treatment technique in a mouse model. They loaded lipid nanoparticles with genetic material that promotes tumor suppression, then coated the nanoparticles with a type of sugar. The result was a 50% median increase in glioblastoma survival time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Oregon State University have potentially found a new way to treat the most aggressive form of brain cancer, glioblastoma, whose two-year survival rate is less than 30%. The study, led by Oleh Taratula, Olena Taratula and Yoon Tae Goo of the OSU College of Pharmacy, addresses what they describe as the two most [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,4,47,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239623","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=239623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}