Drug delivery breakthrough: Vehicle that can carry drugs to a specific organelle inside the cell
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 23:14
in Physics & Chemistry
A team of scientists has got a step closer to one of the holy grails of drug delivery. The goal -- to find a vehicle that can carry drugs not just to a specific cell but a specific organ (organelle) inside the cell, and accurately measure how it behaves when it gets there -- has proved elusive despite two decades of research.