{"id":27422,"date":"2016-07-01T04:47:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T11:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/scientists-say-theyve-developed-aspirin-that-crosses-the-blood-brain-barrier"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:54:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:54:29","slug":"scientists-say-theyve-developed-aspirin-that-crosses-the-blood-brain-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/scientists-say-theyve-developed-aspirin-that-crosses-the-blood-brain-barrier","title":{"rendered":"Scientists say they\u2019ve developed aspirin that crosses the blood-brain barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-say-theyve-developed-aspirin-that-crosses-the-blood-brain-barrier.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest challenges in treating brain cancer has been getting drugs to cross the blood-brain barrier and attack tumours where they\u2019re needed.<\/p>\n<p>But scientists say they\u2019ve now developed a truly soluble liquid aspirin that can make its way into the brain, and, in the lab at least, kill cancerous glioblastoma cells without harming healthy brain tissue.<\/p>\n<p>The research hasn\u2019t been published in a peer-reviewed journal as yet, so we need to take it with a big pinch of salt for now. But scientists from the Brain Tumour Research Centre at the University of Portsmouth in the UK <a href=\"http:\/\/uopnews.port.ac.uk\/2016\/06\/28\/breakthrough-in-brain-tumour-research\/\">just presented<\/a> it at the Brain Tumours 2016 conference in Poland.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-think-they-ve-developed-a-drug-that-passes-the-blood-brain-barrier\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-think-they-ve-develop...in-barrier<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest challenges in treating brain cancer has been getting drugs to cross the blood-brain barrier and attack tumours where they\u2019re needed. But scientists say they\u2019ve now developed a truly soluble liquid aspirin that can make its way into the brain, and, in the lab at least, kill cancerous glioblastoma cells without harming [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27422","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67054,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27422\/revisions\/67054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}