{"id":92012,"date":"2019-06-13T13:42:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T20:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/new-laser-zaps-and-destroys-cancer-cells-in-real-time"},"modified":"2019-06-13T13:42:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T20:42:31","slug":"new-laser-zaps-and-destroys-cancer-cells-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/new-laser-zaps-and-destroys-cancer-cells-in-real-time","title":{"rendered":"New Laser Zaps and Destroys Cancer Cells in Real Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-laser-zaps-and-destroys-cancer-cells-in-real-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists from the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences have successfully tested a laser that can track down cancer cells and kill them \u2014 all from outside the skin.<\/p>\n<p>While being completely non-invasive, \u201cthis technology has the potential to significantly inhibit metastasis progression,\u201d Vladimir Zharov, author of <a href=\"https:\/\/stm.sciencemag.org\/content\/11\/496\/eaat5857\">the paper<\/a> that was published today in <em>Science Translational Medicine<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/the-human-os\/biomedical\/diagnostics\/laser-destroys-cancer-cells-circulating-in-the-blood\">tells<\/a> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/the-human-os\/biomedical\/diagnostics\/laser-destroys-cancer-cells-circulating-in-the-blood\">IEEE Spectrum<\/a>. <\/em>The idea is to kill of cancer cells before they are able to metastasize, or spread, through the body \u2014 the primary cause of cancer-related deaths.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/laser-destroy-cancer-cells\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists from the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences have successfully tested a laser that can track down cancer cells and kill them \u2014 all from outside the skin. While being completely non-invasive, \u201cthis technology has the potential to significantly inhibit metastasis progression,\u201d Vladimir Zharov, author of the paper that was published today [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92012","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}