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Title: New ways to stop cancer once it spreads Written by: duddy on Jan 24, 2015 (https://biology-forums.com/gallery/47/4_24_01_15_2_52_36.jpeg) (https://biology-forums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=20341) When a person dies from cancer, the culprit isn't usually the original tumor - it's metastasis, the spread of cancer cells throughout the body. Now, researchers have managed to package a drug in nanoparticles (a microscopic particle with at least one dimension less than 100 nm) so that it can target these cancer cells without, crucially, interfering with normal cells - and report that they've stopped cancer cells from spreading in mice. Nanoparticle research is currently an area of intense scientific research, due to a wide variety of potential applications in biomedical, optical, and electronic fields. Source: http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/01/nanoparticle-drug-stops-cancer-s-spread-mice Comments: They've been talking about this for ages, glad it's making progress. The only effective method at the moment is chemo, but that of course has many negative side-effects. Written by: padre on Jan 26, 2015 I suppose something like this would buy doctors time, but not fully eradicate the cancer. Written by: bio_man on Jan 24, 2015 |