'Backpacking' bacteria help ferry nano-medicines inside humans
Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 23:30
in Health & Medicine
To the ranks of horses, donkeys and other animals that have served humanity as pack animals or beasts of burden, scientists are now enlisting bacteria to ferry nano-medicine cargos throughout the human body. Scientists have recently reported on progress in developing "backpacking" bacteria that are so small that a million would fit on the head of a pin.