{"id":29118,"date":"2016-08-19T12:46:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T19:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/accelerating-early-disease-detection-with-nanobiotechnology"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:51:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:51:23","slug":"accelerating-early-disease-detection-with-nanobiotechnology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/accelerating-early-disease-detection-with-nanobiotechnology","title":{"rendered":"Accelerating early disease detection with nanobiotechnology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/accelerating-early-disease-detection-with-nanobiotechnology.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine this scenario: Annual physical examinations are supplemented by an affordable home diagnostic chip, allowing you to regularly monitor your baseline health with just a simple urine sample. Though outwardly you appear to be in good health, the device reveals a fluctuation in your biomarker profile, indicating the possible emergence of early stage cancer development or presence of a virus.<\/p>\n<p>Diagnostic devices like a home pregnancy test have been around since the 1970s. It revolutionized a woman\u2019s ability to find out if she was pregnant without having to wait for a doctor\u2019s appointment to confirm her suspicions. The test relies on detecting a hormone, human chorionic gonadotropin, present in urine. But could detecting cancer, or a deadly virus, from a similar kind of sample and device be as simple and non-invasive?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/blogs\/research\/2016\/08\/accelerating-early-disease-detection-nanobiotechnology\/\">https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/blogs\/research\/2016\/08\/accelerating-earl...echnology\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine this scenario: Annual physical examinations are supplemented by an affordable home diagnostic chip, allowing you to regularly monitor your baseline health with just a simple urine sample. Though outwardly you appear to be in good health, the device reveals a fluctuation in your biomarker profile, indicating the possible emergence of early stage cancer development [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29118","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50019,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29118\/revisions\/50019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}