{"id":96304,"date":"2019-09-16T12:23:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T19:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/nanoparticles-used-to-transport-anti-cancer-agent-to-cells"},"modified":"2019-09-16T12:23:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T19:23:59","slug":"nanoparticles-used-to-transport-anti-cancer-agent-to-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/nanoparticles-used-to-transport-anti-cancer-agent-to-cells","title":{"rendered":"Nanoparticles used to transport anti-cancer agent to cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanoparticles-used-to-transport-anti-cancer-agent-to-cells3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists from the University of Cambridge have developed a platform that uses nanoparticles known as metal-organic frameworks to deliver a promising anti-cancer agent to cells.<\/p>\n<p>Research led by Dr. David Fairen-Jimenez, from the Cambridge Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, indicates <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/metal-organic+frameworks\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">metal-organic frameworks<\/a> (MOFs) could present a viable platform for delivering a potent anti-cancer agent, known as siRNA, to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cells<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Small interfering ribonucleic acid (siRNA), has the potential to inhibit overexpressed cancer-causing genes, and has become an increasing focus for scientists on the hunt for new cancer treatments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from the University of Cambridge have developed a platform that uses nanoparticles known as metal-organic frameworks to deliver a promising anti-cancer agent to cells. Research led by Dr. David Fairen-Jimenez, from the Cambridge Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, indicates metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) could present a viable platform for delivering a potent anti-cancer agent, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96304","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=96304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}