{"id":240046,"date":"2026-06-30T22:14:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/gold-laced-nanoparticles-could-eventually-spot-and-treat-endometriosis-without-surgery"},"modified":"2026-06-30T22:14:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:14:19","slug":"gold-laced-nanoparticles-could-eventually-spot-and-treat-endometriosis-without-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/gold-laced-nanoparticles-could-eventually-spot-and-treat-endometriosis-without-surgery","title":{"rendered":"Gold-laced nanoparticles could eventually spot and treat endometriosis without surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gold-laced-nanoparticles-could-eventually-spot-and-treat-endometriosis-without-surgery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Endometriosis is a painful, common condition affecting women worldwide, but treatment and diagnosis options are scarce. A new University of Mississippi-led study may have found an answer to both problems.<\/p>\n<p>Early results from a study published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s42004-026-01909-8\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Communications Chemistry<\/i><\/a> show that gold-laced nanoparticles can hitchhike on white blood cells. By using those cells as a delivery vehicle, the team hopes to identify and treat endometriosis without repeated surgeries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLots of women go through their lives being in enormous amounts of pain and thinking that it\u2019s normal, and it\u2019s not normal,\u201d said Eden Tanner, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, who authored the study with a team of Ole Miss researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Endometriosis is a painful, common condition affecting women worldwide, but treatment and diagnosis options are scarce. A new University of Mississippi-led study may have found an answer to both problems. Early results from a study published in Communications Chemistry show that gold-laced nanoparticles can hitchhike on white blood cells. By using those cells as a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240046","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\/240046","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=240046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}