Super-mini vehicles carry therapeutics and imaging agents into body with mega results
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 15:31
in Physics & Chemistry
Measured in billionths of a meter, self-assembling nano-sized devices designed to carry drugs and imaging agents into the body are revolutionizing medicine by improving drug solubility and bio-distribution, providing a platform for combining targeting and imaging agents, and enabling membrane barriers to be crossed as well as making drug and imaging agent combination therapies possible.