{"id":92108,"date":"2019-06-15T06:36:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T13:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/scientists-develop-new-laser-that-can-find-and-destroy-cancer-cells-in-the-blood"},"modified":"2019-06-15T06:36:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T13:36:53","slug":"scientists-develop-new-laser-that-can-find-and-destroy-cancer-cells-in-the-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/scientists-develop-new-laser-that-can-find-and-destroy-cancer-cells-in-the-blood","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Develop New Laser That Can Find and Destroy Cancer Cells in the Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-develop-new-laser-that-can-find-and-destroy-cancer-cells-in-the-blood2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cancer cells can spread to other parts of the body through the blood. And now, researchers have developed a new kind of laser that can find and zap those tumor cells from the outside of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/27115-skin-facts-diseases-conditions.html\">the skin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Though it may still be a ways away from becoming a commercial diagnostic tool, the laser is up to 1,000 times more sensitive than current methods used to detect tumor cells in blood, the researchers reported June 12 in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/stm.sciencemag.org\/lookup\/doi\/10.1126\/scitranslmed.aat5857\">Science Translational Medicine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To test for cancer spread, doctors typically take blood samples, but often the tests fail to find tumor cells even if they are present in a single sample, especially if the patient has an early form of cancer, said senior author Vladimir Zharov, director of the nanomedicine center at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cancer cells can spread to other parts of the body through the blood. And now, researchers have developed a new kind of laser that can find and zap those tumor cells from the outside of the skin. Though it may still be a ways away from becoming a commercial diagnostic tool, the laser is up [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92108","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=92108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}