Liquid Metal ‘Nano-Terminators’ Target Cancer Cells

December 3, 2015

(Nanotechnology Now) – “The advance here is that we have a drug-delivery technique that may enhance the effectiveness of the drugs being delivered, can help doctors locate tumors, can be produced in bulk, and appears to be wholly biodegradable with very low toxicity,” says Zhen Gu, corresponding author of a Nature Communications paper on the work and an assistant professor in the joint biomedical engineering program at NC State and UNC-CH. “And one of the advantages of this technique is that these liquid metal drug carriers — or ‘nano-terminators’ — are very easy to make.”