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MSN has an article you may find intresting
LONDON - A smart anti-cancer bomb that acts like a Trojan horse can penetrate deep into tumors where it explodes and destroys cancerous cells without harming healthy ones, scientists said on Wednesday.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who devised the molecular size bomb tested it in mice with skin or lung cancer. Mice given the treatment lived more than three times longer than untreated rodents.
The smart bomb uses nanotechnology which manipulates materials on a molecular or atomic scale, to deliver chemotherapy drugs to destroy the tumor and anti-angiogenesis agents to block its blood supply.
Eighty percent of the mice treated with the nanocell bomb lived longer than 65 days while rodents receiving the best chemotherapy lasted only 30.
Mice that had no treatment died at 20 days.
Because the smart bomb, which is a new approach to drug delivery, uses existing drugs and materials the researchers think it could have a similar impact in humans.
Read more Here
Mike
LONDON - A smart anti-cancer bomb that acts like a Trojan horse can penetrate deep into tumors where it explodes and destroys cancerous cells without harming healthy ones, scientists said on Wednesday.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who devised the molecular size bomb tested it in mice with skin or lung cancer. Mice given the treatment lived more than three times longer than untreated rodents.
The smart bomb uses nanotechnology which manipulates materials on a molecular or atomic scale, to deliver chemotherapy drugs to destroy the tumor and anti-angiogenesis agents to block its blood supply.
Eighty percent of the mice treated with the nanocell bomb lived longer than 65 days while rodents receiving the best chemotherapy lasted only 30.
Mice that had no treatment died at 20 days.
Because the smart bomb, which is a new approach to drug delivery, uses existing drugs and materials the researchers think it could have a similar impact in humans.
Read more Here
Mike
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