Sneaking drugs into cancer cells before triggering release
Friday, May 9, 2014 - 18:31
in Health & Medicine
Biomedical engineering researchers have developed an anti-cancer drug delivery method that essentially smuggles the drug into a cancer cell before triggering its release. The method can be likened to keeping a cancer-killing bomb and its detonator separate until they are inside a cancer cell, where they then combine to destroy the cell.