Bio-inspired 'nano-cocoons' offer targeted drug delivery against cancer cells
Tuesday, October 14, 2014 - 08:30
in Biology & Nature
Biomedical engineering researchers have developed a drug delivery system consisting of nanoscale "cocoons" made of DNA that target cancer cells and trick the cells into absorbing the cocoon before unleashing anticancer drugs. The work was done by researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.