{"id":343,"date":"2011-09-27T19:22:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T19:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=343"},"modified":"2011-09-28T12:31:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T12:31:44","slug":"a-smart-bomb-approach-to-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"A &#8220;smart bomb&#8221; approach to cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Cancer.jpg\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<dl id=\"attachment_345\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Cancer.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Cancer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-345\" title=\"Cancer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Cancer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Cancer cells could be taking a direct hit<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>Researchers in the UK say they\u2019ve developed a new drug which could help treat cancer with extreme precision and few or no side-effects for the patient. The team from Bradford University\u2019s work, which has been published in the journal Cancer Research, involves modifying a toxin originally found in a crocus flower to make it kill ONLY cancer cells and nothing else &#8211; which if it works would seriously improve cancer patients\u2019 quality of life. Here&#8217;s my report for Spectrum on Deutsche Welle Radio.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ab-player\" data-boourl=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/485293-a-smart-bomb-cancer-treatment\/embed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/485293-a-smart-bomb-cancer-treatment\">listen to &lsquo;A &quot;smart bomb&quot; cancer treatment &rsquo; on Audioboo<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">(function() { var po = document.createElement(\"script\"); po.type = \"text\/javascript\"; po.async = true; po.src = \"http:\/\/static0.boo.fm\/javascripts\/embed.js?1317207264\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cancer cells could be taking a direct hit Researchers in the UK say they\u2019ve developed a new drug which could help treat cancer with extreme precision and few or no side-effects for the patient. The team from Bradford University\u2019s work, which has been published in the journal Cancer Research, involves modifying a toxin originally found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}