Researchers use nanotech to target chemo cancer treatment
August 22, 2008
University researchers have found a way to use nanotechnology to have chemotherapy drugs target only cancer cells, keeping healthy tissue safe from the treatment’s toxic effects. Cancer researchers have been trying to figure out a way to better deliver drugs, like chemotherapy, to cancer cells without blasting surrounding cells as well. Last week, scientists at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., devised a way to use single-walled carbon nanotubes as targeted medicinal delivery vehicles. (Computerworld)
