{"id":77275,"date":"2018-03-30T08:40:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T15:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/scientists-build-army-of-metal-organic-nanoflowers-to-treat-cancer"},"modified":"2018-04-03T12:13:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T19:13:56","slug":"scientists-build-army-of-metal-organic-nanoflowers-to-treat-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/scientists-build-army-of-metal-organic-nanoflowers-to-treat-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Scientists build army of metal-organic nanoflowers to treat cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-build-army-of-metal-organic-nanoflowers-to-treat-cancer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doctors have been using radiation to treat cancer for more than a hundred years, but it\u2019s always been a delicate art to direct treatment while avoiding healthy tissue.<\/p>\n<p>To help them, scientists with the University of Chicago have designed an army of tiny flower-shaped metal-and-organic nanoparticles that deliver a one-two punch\u2014first boosting the effects of radiation at the tumor site and then jumpstarting the immune system to search out any remaining tumors.<\/p>\n<p>The research, published March 26 in <i>Nature Biomedical Engineering<\/i>, led to a candidate molecule currently beginning phase 1 clinical trials.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-03-scientists-army-metal-organic-nanoflowers-cancer.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;03-scientists-army-metal-orga...ancer.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors have been using radiation to treat cancer for more than a hundred years, but it\u2019s always been a delicate art to direct treatment while avoiding healthy tissue. To help them, scientists with the University of Chicago have designed an army of tiny flower-shaped metal-and-organic nanoparticles that deliver a one-two punch\u2014first boosting the effects of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77275","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77277,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77275\/revisions\/77277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}