{"id":28965,"date":"2016-08-15T17:46:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T00:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/legions-of-nanorobots-target-cancerous-tumours-with-precision"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:24:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:24:32","slug":"legions-of-nanorobots-target-cancerous-tumours-with-precision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/legions-of-nanorobots-target-cancerous-tumours-with-precision","title":{"rendered":"Legions of nanorobots target cancerous tumours with precision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/legions-of-nanorobots-target-cancerous-tumours-with-precision.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Polytechnique Montr\u00e9al, Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al and McGill University have just achieved a spectacular breakthrough in cancer research. They have developed new nanorobotic agents capable of navigating through the bloodstream to administer a drug with precision by specifically targeting the active cancerous cells of tumours. This way of injecting medication ensures the optimal targeting of a tumour and avoids jeopardizing the integrity of organs and surrounding healthy tissues. As a result, the drug dosage that is highly toxic for the human organism could be significantly reduced.<\/p>\n<p>This scientific breakthrough has just been published in the prestigious journal <i>Nature Nanotechnology<\/i> in an article titled \u201cMagneto-aerotactic bacteria deliver drug-containing nanoliposomes to tumour hypoxic regions.\u201d The article notes the results of the research done on mice, which were successfully administered nanorobotic agents into colorectal tumours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese legions of nanorobotic agents were actually composed of more than 100 million flagellated bacteria \u2014 and therefore self-propelled \u2014 and loaded with drugs that moved by taking the most direct path between the drug\u2019s injection point and the area of the body to cure,\u201d explains Professor Sylvain Martel, holder of the Canada Research Chair in Medical Nanorobotics and Director of the Polytechnique Montr\u00e9al Nanorobotics Laboratory, who heads the research team\u2019s work. \u201cThe drug\u2019s propelling force was enough to travel efficiently and enter deep inside the tumours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/m.phys.org\/news\/2016-08-legions-nanorobots-cancerous-tumours-precision.html\">http:\/\/m.phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;08-legions-nanorobots-cancer...ision.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Polytechnique Montr\u00e9al, Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al and McGill University have just achieved a spectacular breakthrough in cancer research. They have developed new nanorobotic agents capable of navigating through the bloodstream to administer a drug with precision by specifically targeting the active cancerous cells of tumours. This way of injecting medication ensures the optimal targeting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28965","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\/377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66562,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28965\/revisions\/66562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}