A more direct delivery of cancer drugs to tumors
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 15:42
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Brigham and Women`s Hospital (BWH) and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) has demonstrated a better way to deliver cancer drugs directly to tumors. The researchers used specially engineered nanoparticles that can inhibit a signaling pathway and deliver a higher concentration of medication to the specific area.