{"id":153299,"date":"2026-05-20T10:21:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153299///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153299//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153299//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153299//?p=153299"},"modified":"2026-05-20T10:39:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:39:37","slug":"ucf-researcher-develops-smart-tiny-bubbles-to-treat-cancer-and-heart-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153299///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153299//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153299//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153299//ucf-researcher-develops-smart-tiny-bubbles-to-treat-cancer-and-heart-disease/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153299//","title":{"rendered":"Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½ Researcher Develops /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153299/u201cSmart, Tiny Bubbles/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153299/u201d to Treat Cancer and Heart Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"
A cell 500 times thinner than a human hair could heal hearts and kill cancer cells, thanks to a patent-pending technology created by a Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½ researcher and now licensed to a university donor in hopes of getting it to clinical trials./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153299/n
Dinender Singla, professor and head of the College of Medicine/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153299/u2019s Division of Metabolic and Cardiovascular Sciences, developed a system that turns exosomes /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153299/u2014 vesicles that cells secrete to communicate with one another /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153299/u2014 into delivery vehicles for medical treatments./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153299/n
This innovative technology, for which Âé¶¹Ó³»´«Ã½ is seeking patent protection, places therapeutics inside exosomes and coats them with cell-specific markers that direct them to an exact area of the body to deliver the drug./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153299/n
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153299/u201cI call these smart tiny bubbles,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153299/u201d Singla says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153299/u201cMillions of people have heart disease, and they take multiple drugs in extremely high doses. But we have no way to be certain these drugs are getting to where they need to go. We need innovative technologies to get treatments exactly where they need to go to cure the problem./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153299/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153299/n