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Friday 15 July 2011

Swarming Nanoparticles Communicate to Boost Drug Concentrations Near Tumors

Like swarming insects drawing crowds to a food source, a system of nanoparticles and engineered proteins can communicate with one another to raise the concentration of systemically administered drugs at the site of a tumor, a team of scientists from the University of California, San Diego, MIT, and the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute has demonstrated.

Read More: http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/20110620Nanoparticles.asp

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