Magnetic nanoparticles deliver chemotherapy to difficult-to-reach spinal tumors
Monday, July 30, 2018 - 13:30
in Health & Medicine
Researchers have demonstrated that magnetic nanoparticles can be used to ferry chemotherapy drugs into the spinal cord to treat hard-to-reach spinal tumors in an animal model. The unique delivery system represents a novel way to target chemotherapy drugs to spinal cancer cells, which are hard to reach because the drugs must cross the blood-brain barrier.