{"id":33680,"date":"2017-01-20T23:26:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T07:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/new-delivery-technique-enables-rapid-treatment-for-inflammation"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:50:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:50:42","slug":"new-delivery-technique-enables-rapid-treatment-for-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/new-delivery-technique-enables-rapid-treatment-for-inflammation","title":{"rendered":"New Delivery Technique Enables Rapid Treatment for Inflammation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-delivery-technique-enables-rapid-treatment-for-inflammation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of engineers has developed a new RNA delivery technique that uses short bursts of ultrasound to efficiently deliver RNA into cells, reducing colon inflammation.<\/p>\n<p>MIT and Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital researchers have demonstrated that they can deliver strands of RNA efficiently to colon cells, using bursts of ultrasound waves that propel the RNA into the cells. Using this approach, the researchers dramatically turned down the production of a protein involved in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), in mice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we saw in this paper was the ultrasound can enable rapid delivery of these molecules,\u201d says Carl Schoellhammer, a postdoc at MIT\u2019s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and the study\u2019s lead author. \u201cIn this case it was proinflammatory molecules that we were shutting off, and we saw tremendous knockdown of those proteins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/new-delivery-technique-enables-rapid-treatment-for-inflammation\/\">http:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/new-delivery-technique-enables-rapid...lammation\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of engineers has developed a new RNA delivery technique that uses short bursts of ultrasound to efficiently deliver RNA into cells, reducing colon inflammation. MIT and Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital researchers have demonstrated that they can deliver strands of RNA efficiently to colon cells, using bursts of ultrasound waves that propel the RNA [\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-33680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33680","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=33680"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65303,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33680\/revisions\/65303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}