{"id":80083,"date":"2018-06-28T01:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T08:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/magnetic-nanoparticles-put-the-heat-on-cancer"},"modified":"2018-06-30T15:01:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T22:01:20","slug":"magnetic-nanoparticles-put-the-heat-on-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/magnetic-nanoparticles-put-the-heat-on-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Magnetic nanoparticles put the heat on cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/magnetic-nanoparticles-put-the-heat-on-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cancer is one of humanity\u2019s biggest killers, but scientists are coming up with some creative ways to fight back. Researchers at the University at Buffalo have developed new kinds of nanoparticles that can infiltrate, heat up and kill cancer cells more effectively and efficiently than similar methods.<\/p>\n<p>Using nanoparticles to fight cancer has become a growing area of research in recent years. The general concept is to get the particles into tumors, before activating them with radiation to trigger a reaction that destroys the cancer cells without harming healthy tissue. What kind of nanoparticle and radiation are used can vary, as can the type of reaction that\u2019s triggered.<\/p>\n<p>Previous work has killed tumors by activating CeF3 nanoparticles with X-rays to create <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/x-rays-nanoparticles-cancer\/41705\/\" target=\"_blank\">toxic singlet oxygen<\/a>, used infrared light to ramp up <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/making-cancer-cells-acidic\/44070\/\" target=\"_blank\">cancer\u2019s pH balance<\/a>, used laser pulses to heat up <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/gold-nanotubes-destroy-cancer-cells\/36116\/\" target=\"_blank\">gold nanoparticles<\/a>, or a <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/multi-tasking-nanoparticle-cancer-cells\/33544\/\" target=\"_blank\">combination<\/a> of several of these.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/magnetic-nanoparticles-heat-up-cancer\/55234\/\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/magnetic-nanoparticles-heat-up-cancer\/55234\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cancer is one of humanity\u2019s biggest killers, but scientists are coming up with some creative ways to fight back. Researchers at the University at Buffalo have developed new kinds of nanoparticles that can infiltrate, heat up and kill cancer cells more effectively and efficiently than similar methods. Using nanoparticles to fight cancer has become a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80083","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\/80083","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80225,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80083\/revisions\/80225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}