Tuesday, August 09, 2005

MIT engineers an anti-cancer smart bomb - MIT News Office

This seems a novel and exciting approach to treating cancer...

MIT engineers an anti-cancer smart bomb - MIT News Office: "magine a cancer drug that can burrow into a tumor, seal the exits and detonate a lethal dose of anti-cancer toxins, all while leaving healthy cells unscathed.

MIT researchers have designed a nanoparticle to do just that.

The dual-chamber, double-acting, drug-packing 'nanocell' proved effective and safe, with prolonged survival, against two distinct forms of cancers-melanoma and Lewis lung cancer-in mice."

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