Targeted Drug Delivery Could Help Fight Tumors and Local Infections
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 - 12:55
in Health & Medicine
Some drug regimens, such as those designed to eliminate tumors, are notorious for nasty side effects. Unwanted symptoms are often the result of medicine going where it's not needed and harming healthy cells. To minimize this risk, researchers in Quebec have developed nanoparticles that only release a drug when exposed to near-infrared light, which doctors could beam onto a specific site.