Nanoparticles Delivering Drugs Can Kill Skin, Breast Cancer Cells
Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - 13:42
in Health & Medicine
Researchers are reporting for the first time that nanoparticles -- 1/5,000 the diameter of a human hair encapsulating an experimental anticancer agent -- can kill human melanoma and drug-resistant breast cancer cells growing in laboratory cultures.
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