Researchers Develop Nano-Sized 'Cargo Ships' to Target and Destroy Tumors
Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 18:35
in Health & Medicine
Scientists have developed nanometer-sized 'cargo ships' that can sail throughout the body via the bloodstream without immediate 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.