{"id":8505,"date":"2012-04-11T09:13:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T16:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8505"},"modified":"2012-04-11T09:13:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T16:13:05","slug":"iranian-scientist-produces-smart-anti-cancer-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8505","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Scientist Produces Smart Anti-Cancer Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Iranian Scientist Produces Smart Anti-Cancer Medicine<\/strong><br \/>\nJafria News &#8211; 11 April, 2012<\/p>\n<p>JNN: Iranian researcher Dr. Omid Farrokhzad of Harvard Medical School has produced a smart cancer drug that is capable of targeting cancer cells in animals.<\/p>\n<p>Farrokhzad and his colleagues made the drug in nano scale which enables it to distinguish and target cancer cells without causing common side effects of chemotherapy.<\/p>\n<p>In popular cancer treatment with chemotherapy, both cancer cells and healthy ones are damaged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe method does not include chemotherapy side effects and the animal tests show that it can reach cancer cells 500-1000 percent more than chemotherapy,\u201d Farrokhzad explained.<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that the medicine will be ready to be used after the clinical studies are finished within the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard has called the drug a \u2018paradigm shift\u2019 in cancer treatment.  <a href=\"http:\/\/jafrianews.com\/2012\/04\/11\/iranian-scienctist-produces-smart-anti-cancer-medicine\/\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D8505&amp;text=Iranian+Scientist+Produces+Smart+Anti-Cancer+Medicine&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian Scientist Produces Smart Anti-Cancer Medicine Jafria News &#8211; 11 April, 2012 JNN: Iranian researcher Dr. Omid Farrokhzad of Harvard Medical School has produced a smart cancer drug that is capable of targeting cancer cells in animals. Farrokhzad and his colleagues made the drug in nano scale which enables it to distinguish and target cancer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8505#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2833],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8506,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505\/revisions\/8506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}