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...

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