{"id":442869,"date":"2010-03-18T11:04:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T15:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/?p=41092"},"modified":"2010-03-18T11:04:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T15:04:43","slug":"new-cancer-drug-screening-method-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/442869","title":{"rendered":"New cancer drug screening method created"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. medical scientists say they&#8217;ve developed a laboratory technique that improves on traditional methods of screening potential anti-cancer drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute said their technique more closely simulates the real-world conditions in which tumor cells mingle with the body&#8217;s normal cells.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite their often impressive results in the laboratory, for every 100 potential anti-cancer therapies administered in patients in clinical trials, only about eight prove safe and effective enough to receive Food and Drug Administration approval,&#8221; said the study&#8217;s senior author, Dr. Constantine Mitsiades of Dana-Farber, a teaching affiliate of the Harvard Medical School\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2010\/03\/16\/New-cancer-drug-screening-method-created\/UPI-92751268766563\/\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. medical scientists say they&#8217;ve developed a laboratory technique that improves on traditional methods of screening potential anti-cancer drugs. The researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute said their technique more closely simulates the real-world conditions in which tumor cells mingle with the body&#8217;s normal cells. &#8220;Despite their often impressive results in the laboratory, for every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}