Light and nanoparticles against cancer
Thursday, July 16, 2020 - 09:26
in Physics & Chemistry
Leiden Ph.D. student Xuequan Zhou has designed a new promising molecule that efficiently kills cancer cells, but does not harm healthy tissue. The trick: the drug is only active when irradiated with light. Zhou's new compound does this extra efficiently by cleverly self-organising into nanoparticles. The research made it to the front cover of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.