{"id":93880,"date":"2019-07-19T10:23:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T17:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/trojan-horse-anticancer-drug-disguises-itself-as-fat"},"modified":"2019-07-19T10:23:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T17:23:07","slug":"trojan-horse-anticancer-drug-disguises-itself-as-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/trojan-horse-anticancer-drug-disguises-itself-as-fat","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Trojan horse\u2019 anticancer drug disguises itself as fat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/trojan-horse-anticancer-drug-disguises-itself-as-fat2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A stealthy new drug-delivery system disguises chemotherapeutics as fat in order to outsmart, penetrate and destroy tumors.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking the drugs are tasty fats, tumors invite the drug inside. Once there, the targeted drug activates, immediately suppressing tumor growth. The drug also is lower in toxicity than current chemotherapy drugs, leading to fewer side effects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like a Trojan horse,\u201d Northwestern University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.northwestern.edu\/gianneschigroup\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Gianneschi<\/a>, who led the research. \u201cIt looks like a nice little fatty acid, so the tumor\u2019s receptors see it and invite it in. Then the drug starts getting metabolized and kills the tumor cells.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stealthy new drug-delivery system disguises chemotherapeutics as fat in order to outsmart, penetrate and destroy tumors. Thinking the drugs are tasty fats, tumors invite the drug inside. Once there, the targeted drug activates, immediately suppressing tumor growth. The drug also is lower in toxicity than current chemotherapy drugs, leading to fewer side effects. \u201cIt\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93880","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}