Friday 25 November 2022 07:35 PM Potential cancer breakthrough as scientists develop 'nanodrug' that delivers ... trends now
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Scientists have developed a cancer therapy that is 50,000 times smaller than an ant — in what they hope is a breakthrough.
It uses nanocarriers, microscopic particles which are not visible to the human eye, to deliver a new immunotherapy and existing chemo drugs.
Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh hope the therapy will mitigate some of the side effects associated with traditional cancer treatments.
The new therapy works by halting the production of an immune protein that is suppressed in cancer patients and allows tumors to grow and spread.
It also provides an ultra-targeted dose of chemotherapy directly to the cancer through a swarm of nanoparticles which latch onto the tumor itself.
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