'Nanobubbles' plus chemotherapy equals single-cell cancer targeting
Monday, April 9, 2012 - 14:40
in Health & Medicine
Using light-harvesting nanoparticles to convert laser energy into "plasmonic nanobubbles," researchers have developed methods for delivering chemotherapy drugs directly into cancer cells. In tests on drug-resistant cancer, the researchers found the methods were up to 30 times more deadly to cancer cells than traditional chemotherapy and required less than one-tenth the clinical dose.