Delivering a potent cancer drug with nanoparticles can lessen side effects
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 - 13:41
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital have shown that they can deliver the cancer drug cisplatin much more effectively and safely in a form that has been encapsulated in a nanoparticle targeted to prostate tumour cells and is activated once it reaches its target...