{"id":33603,"date":"2017-01-19T00:06:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T08:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/indian-scientists-design-magic-dna-for-low-cost-breast-cancer-detection"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:51:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:51:21","slug":"indian-scientists-design-magic-dna-for-low-cost-breast-cancer-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/indian-scientists-design-magic-dna-for-low-cost-breast-cancer-detection","title":{"rendered":"Indian scientists design \u2018magic\u2019 DNA for low cost breast cancer detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/indian-scientists-design-magic-dna-for-low-cost-breast-cancer-detection.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nice.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Indian scientists have designed high precision DNA probes for breast cancer detection, which they claim can bring down costs of diagnostics ten-fold.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology \u2014 Guwahati relied on \u2018magic bullets\u2019 of science, a class of molecules called aptamers, that can bind to virtually any molecule, clasping it in a firm lock-and-key fit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur team has found an alternative way to detect breast cancer. We have synthesised a special type of aptamer which has high specificity towards estrogen receptor alpha positive breast carcinomas. The aptamer recognises and binds to the receptor even in minute quantities,\u201d Arghya Sett, lead author of the study, told IANS.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.prothom-alo.com\/science-technology\/news\/136433\/Indian-scientists-design-magic-DNA-for-low-cost\">http:\/\/en.prothom-alo.com\/science-technology\/news\/136433\/Ind...r-low-cost<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice. Indian scientists have designed high precision DNA probes for breast cancer detection, which they claim can bring down costs of diagnostics ten-fold. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology \u2014 Guwahati relied on \u2018magic bullets\u2019 of science, a class of molecules called aptamers, that can bind to virtually any molecule, clasping it in a [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33603","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=33603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65326,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33603\/revisions\/65326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}