New method sneaks drugs into cancer cells before triggering release

Friday, May 9, 2014 - 09:01 in Health & Medicine

(Phys.org) —Biomedical engineering researchers have developed an anti-cancer drug delivery method that essentially smuggles the drug into a cancer cell before triggering its release. The method can be likened to keeping a cancer-killing bomb and its detonator separate until they are inside a cancer cell, where they then combine to destroy the cell.

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