{"id":84964,"date":"2018-11-20T16:23:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T00:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/lasers-may-help-experts-understand-cancer"},"modified":"2018-11-20T16:23:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T00:23:52","slug":"lasers-may-help-experts-understand-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/lasers-may-help-experts-understand-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Lasers may help experts understand cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lasers-may-help-experts-understand-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists in Fife are investigating if tiny lasers could be used to better understand diseases such as cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Using nano-technology, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-018-07248-0\" class=\"\">St Andrews University experts created lasers small enough to fit inside live cells<\/a> which can then be tracked.<\/p>\n<p>With a diameter of a thousandth of a millimetre, the lasers can be inserted into neurons or immune cells.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-46277966\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-46277966<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists in Fife are investigating if tiny lasers could be used to better understand diseases such as cancer. Using nano-technology, the St Andrews University experts created lasers small enough to fit inside live cells which can then be tracked. With a diameter of a thousandth of a millimetre, the lasers can be inserted into neurons [\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-84964","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\/84964","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=84964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}