Cell gain in the membrane
Alert Grant Morrison: scientists have successfully used nanoparticles to more effectively treat brain tumors, as this writer executes the rare double-split infinitive. From an article in Scientific American, Nanoparticles Home in on Brain Cancer:
Call them laser-guided smart bombs for brain tumors. Researchers at the University of Michigan announced the testing of a drug delivery system that involves drug-toting nanoparticles and a guiding peptide to target cancerous cells in the brain. Their study finds that via this method more of the drug can be delivered to a tumor's general vicinity.
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Rehemtulla adds that if other FDA-approved chemotherapeutic agents reach their targets as successfully as Photofrin did, "then we will have developed a way to make cancer drugs more 'tumor-specific,' because they will only get into tumor vasculature and not normal vasculature. This will spare patients from normal tissue toxicity that is commonly associated with almost all chemotherapy."
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