{"id":120,"date":"2009-11-08T04:59:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T04:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2009-11-08T04:59:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T04:59:08","slug":"lasers-can-destroy-cancer-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/nano-medicine\/lasers-can-destroy-cancer-cells.php","title":{"rendered":"Lasers can destroy cancer cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2wXZIjDq4uLDZ1-HcfjuvQAEsK0\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ffe91_di\" border=\"0\" ismap style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2wXZIjDq4uLDZ1-HcfjuvQAEsK0\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ffe91_di\" border=\"0\" ismap style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>Researchers from Rice University, led by Professor Yildiz Bayazitoglu, have performed a research which showed that by combining two lasers and pointing them to nanoparticles in order to heat them up, it is possible to destroy the &ldquo;bad&rdquo; tissue, with minimum damage to healthy cells.<\/p><p>Of course, lasers and nanoparticles are already used in nanomedicine for treating cancer &mdash; the technique is based on using nanoshells and heating them up by near-infrared laser.<\/p><p>The outcome of this research depends on the properties of nanoparticles &mdash; their light-scatter in particular. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re afraid that the nanoparticles located near the surface of a tumor will block a laser from reaching those at the center.&rdquo;<\/p><p>The details are published in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.<\/p><p><em>Adopted from materials provided by UPI.com<\/em><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ffe91_8JoC7NoXH5M\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Rice University, led by Professor Yildiz Bayazitoglu, have performed a research which showed that by combining two lasers and pointing them to nanoparticles in order to heat them up, it is possible to destroy the &ldquo;bad&rdquo; tissue, with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/nano-medicine\/lasers-can-destroy-cancer-cells.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nano-medicine"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}