{"id":30186,"date":"2016-09-14T20:48:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T03:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/journey-to-the-centre-of-the-cell-nano-rods-and-worms-wriggle-best"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:40:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:40:27","slug":"journey-to-the-centre-of-the-cell-nano-rods-and-worms-wriggle-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/journey-to-the-centre-of-the-cell-nano-rods-and-worms-wriggle-best","title":{"rendered":"Journey to the Centre of the Cell: Nano-Rods and Worms Wriggle Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/journey-to-the-centre-of-the-cell-nano-rods-and-worms-wriggle-best.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting read.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>When it comes to delivering <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about drugs here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/drugs\/\">drugs<\/a>, <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about nanoparticles here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/nanoparticles\/\">nanoparticles<\/a> shaped like rods and worms are the best bet for making the daunting journey to the centre of a cell, new Australian research suggests.<\/p>\n<p>A new study published in <em>Nature Nanotechnology <\/em>has answered a long-standing question that could lead to the design of <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about better here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/better\/\">better<\/a> <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about drug delivery here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/drug-delivery\/\">drug delivery<\/a> vehicles: how nanoparticle shape affects the voyage through the cell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were able to show for the first time that <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about nanoparticles here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/nanoparticles\/\">nanoparticles<\/a> shaped like rods and worms were more effective than spherical nanoparticles at traversing intracellular barriers and this enabled them to get all the way into the nucleus of the cell,\u201d says lead author <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about UNSW here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/unsw\/\">UNSW<\/a>\u2019s Dr Elizabeth Hinde.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/journey-centre-cell-nano-rods-worms-wriggle-best\/\">http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/journey-cent...ggle-best\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting read. When it comes to delivering drugs, nanoparticles shaped like rods and worms are the best bet for making the daunting journey to the centre of a cell, new Australian research suggests. A new study published in Nature Nanotechnology has answered a long-standing question that could lead to the design of better drug delivery [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30186","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49874,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30186\/revisions\/49874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}