{"id":78978,"date":"2018-05-25T08:45:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T15:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/nanoparticles-carry-drug-duo-into-the-brain-to-fight-cancer"},"modified":"2018-05-26T07:02:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T14:02:07","slug":"nanoparticles-carry-drug-duo-into-the-brain-to-fight-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/nanoparticles-carry-drug-duo-into-the-brain-to-fight-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Nanoparticles carry drug duo into the brain to fight cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanoparticles-carry-drug-duo-into-the-brain-to-fight-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Glioblastoma is one of the most deadly forms of cancer. Affecting the brain, those unlucky enough to receive a diagnosis don\u2019t have many treatment options \u2013 and usually a median life expectancy of just over a year. Now, researchers at MIT have developed nanoparticles that could provide hope, crossing the blood-brain barrier and delivering two types of drugs to fight tumors.<\/p>\n<p>The MIT nanoparticles are liposomes, fatty droplets that can carry one drug on the inside and another in the outer layer. On the inside, the particles were loaded with a common chemotherapy drug called temozolomide, while the outer shell contained a more experimental substance known as JQ-1.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/nanoparticles-brain-cancer\/54770\/\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/nanoparticles-brain-cancer\/54770\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glioblastoma is one of the most deadly forms of cancer. Affecting the brain, those unlucky enough to receive a diagnosis don\u2019t have many treatment options \u2013 and usually a median life expectancy of just over a year. Now, researchers at MIT have developed nanoparticles that could provide hope, crossing the blood-brain barrier and delivering two [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78978","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79012,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78978\/revisions\/79012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}