{"id":30274,"date":"2016-09-18T21:47:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T04:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/scientists-find-a-way-to-destroy-blood-clots-with-laser-beam"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:39:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:39:54","slug":"scientists-find-a-way-to-destroy-blood-clots-with-laser-beam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/scientists-find-a-way-to-destroy-blood-clots-with-laser-beam","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Find a Way to Destroy Blood Clots With Laser Beam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-a-way-to-destroy-blood-clots-with-laser-beam.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of physicists from the US, Germany and Russia have devised a method of detecting blood clotting with the help of a laser beam, RIA Novosti reported, citing an article carried by the latest issue of PLOS ONE scientific journal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have demonstrated how you can detect blood clots using photoacoustic flow-cytometry. We will potentially be able to destroy them right away, but this requires additional research,\u201d Alexander Melerzanov, a senior fellow at Moscow\u2019s Institute of Physics and Technology, told RIA.<\/p>\n<p>Formation of clots in the blood stream is the main cause of strokes and heart attacks. Breaking loose in the bloodstream they can clog arteries often resulting in a patient\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/russia\/20160918\/1045437739\/blood-clots-detection.html\">https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/russia\/20160918\/1045437739\/blood-clots-detection.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of physicists from the US, Germany and Russia have devised a method of detecting blood clotting with the help of a laser beam, RIA Novosti reported, citing an article carried by the latest issue of PLOS ONE scientific journal. \u201cWe have demonstrated how you can detect blood clots using photoacoustic flow-cytometry. We will [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30274","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49857,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30274\/revisions\/49857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}