Researchers develop nano-sized 'cargo ships' to target and destroy tumors

Friday, September 12, 2008 - 03:56 in Health & Medicine

Scientists have developed nanometer-sized 'cargo ships' that can sail throughout the body via the bloodstream without immediate detection from the body's immune radar system and ferry their cargo of anti-cancer drugs and markers into tumors that might otherwise go untreated or undetected.

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