Good vibrations: Using light-heated water to deliver drugs
Tuesday, April 1, 2014 - 15:32
in Physics & Chemistry
A new mechanism for using light to activate drug-delivering nanoparticles and other targeted therapeutic substances inside the body has been developed by a collaboration of materials scientists, engineers and neurobiologists. This discovery represents a major innovation. Up to now, only a handful of strategies using light-triggered release from nanoparticles have been reported.