Slipping Through Cell Walls, Nanotubes Deliver High-potency Punch To Cancer Tumors In Mice
Date: 16.8.2008
The problem with using a shotgun to kill a housefly is that even if you get the pest, you'll likely do a lot of damage to your home in the process. Hence the value of the more surgical flyswatter.
**Cancer** researchers have long faced a similar situation in chemotherapy: how to get the most medication into the cells of a **tumor** without "spillover" of the medication adversely affecting the healthy cells in a patient's body.
Whole article on "sciencedaily":[ http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080814171128.htm]
