Nano-Sized ‘Cargo Ships’ to Destroy Tumors

Scientists have developed nanometer-sized ‘cargo ships’ that can sail all through the body via the bloodstream without instant detection from the body’s immune radar system and ferry their cargo of anti-cancer drugs and markers into tumors that might otherwise go untreated or undetected. In a forthcoming issue of the Germany-based chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie, scientists at UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and MIT report that their nano-cargo-ship system integrates therapeutic and diagnostic functions into a individual device that avoids rapid removal by the body’s natural immune system. Their paper is now accessible in an early online version here……..

Original post by Heather Craven

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