{"id":4694,"date":"2016-03-16T12:47:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T16:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4694"},"modified":"2016-03-18T14:17:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T18:17:39","slug":"improving-the-cellular-backpack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/improving-the-cellular-backpack\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving the cellular backpack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4695\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1458074267219.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4695\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4695\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1458074267219-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Monocytes \u2014 a kind of white blood cell \u2014 carrying drug-loaded backpacks (red). (The scale bar is 5 \u00b5m.) (Image credit: Roberta Polak &amp; Rosanna Lim)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1458074267219-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1458074267219-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1458074267219-268x268.jpg 268w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1458074267219.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4695\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monocytes \u2014 a kind of white blood cell \u2014 carrying drug-loaded backpacks (red). (The scale bar is 5 \u00b5m.) (Image credit: Roberta Polak &amp; Rosanna Lim)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Medicine can be delivered to specific parts of the body by fitting it inside a \u201cbackpack\u201d and attaching it to white blood cells. This targeted drug delivery means other tissues of the body aren\u2019t affected, and side effects are limited.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acs.org\/content\/acs\/en\/pressroom\/newsreleases\/2016\/march\/cellular-backpacks.html\" target=\"_blank\">Original research<\/a><\/span>\u00a0presented at a meeting of the <em>American Chemical Society\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>March 17<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medicine can be delivered to specific parts of the body by fitting it inside a \u201cbackpack\u201d and attaching it to white blood cells. This targeted drug delivery means other tissues of the body aren\u2019t affected, and side effects are limited.\u00a0 Original research\u00a0presented at a meeting of the American Chemical Society\u00a0on March 17, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[113,32,51,53,1011],"class_list":["post-4694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-tip","tag-biology","tag-chemistry","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1458074267219.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1dI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4717,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694\/revisions\/4717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}