{"id":244334,"date":"2026-09-21T21:38:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/new-nanoparticle-drug-delivery-method-may-improve-treatment-for-endometriosis"},"modified":"2026-09-21T21:38:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:38:47","slug":"new-nanoparticle-drug-delivery-method-may-improve-treatment-for-endometriosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/new-nanoparticle-drug-delivery-method-may-improve-treatment-for-endometriosis","title":{"rendered":"New nanoparticle drug-delivery method may improve treatment for endometriosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-nanoparticle-drug-delivery-method-may-improve-treatment-for-endometriosis.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have engineered a drug treatment that shows rapid effectiveness against endometriosis in early testing, laying the foundation for a potential therapy for an incurable, chronic disease that affects 1 in 10 women. The targeted nanotherapy, developed by a team of scientists at Washington State University, reduced endometriosis symptoms and disease progression after a single dose in a mouse model.<\/p>\n<p>The treatment targets a cell associated with endometriosis with a commonly available drug delivered by a tiny nanoparticle. The results were <a href=\"https:\/\/advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/adhm.71661\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Advanced Healthcare Materials<\/i>, and the researchers hope to eventually test the drug for human use.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found the disease-specific immune cell, and then we had a drug, but we couldn\u2019t target the cell with the drug alone,\u201d said Kanako Hayashi, a professor in WSU\u2019s School of Molecular Biosciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine and a corresponding author of the new publication. \u201cSo we used this nanocarrier that delivers the drug specifically to the disease site.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have engineered a drug treatment that shows rapid effectiveness against endometriosis in early testing, laying the foundation for a potential therapy for an incurable, chronic disease that affects 1 in 10 women. The targeted nanotherapy, developed by a team of scientists at Washington State University, reduced endometriosis symptoms and disease progression after a single [\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-244334","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\/244334","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=244334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}