{"id":86022,"date":"2018-12-20T23:02:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T07:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/scientists-use-modified-salmonella-to-smuggle-cancer-fighting-particles-into-the-tumor"},"modified":"2018-12-20T23:02:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T07:02:23","slug":"scientists-use-modified-salmonella-to-smuggle-cancer-fighting-particles-into-the-tumor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/scientists-use-modified-salmonella-to-smuggle-cancer-fighting-particles-into-the-tumor","title":{"rendered":"Scientists use modified salmonella to smuggle cancer-fighting particles into the tumor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-use-modified-salmonella-to-smuggle-cancer-fighting-particles-into-the-tumor.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coming up with potent anti-cancer drugs is one thing, delivering them to the site of a tumor inside the body is very much another. With a complicated organism guarded by a highly evolved immune system to navigate, getting these particles to there target in one piece is a challenging task, and one that scientists are continuing to tackle from all angles. A promising new approach developed at Virginia Tech leans on the penetrative properties of a salmonella infection, which they\u2019ve found can be used as a vehicle to smuggle cancer-fighting nanoparticles into a tumor in a huge abundance.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/modified-salmonella-cancer-tumor\/57776\/\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/modified-salmonella-cancer-tumor\/57776\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming up with potent anti-cancer drugs is one thing, delivering them to the site of a tumor inside the body is very much another. With a complicated organism guarded by a highly evolved immune system to navigate, getting these particles to there target in one piece is a challenging task, and one that scientists are [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86022","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\/86022","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=86022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}