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Nano-Sized 'Cargo Ships' to Destroy Tumors Friday, September 12, 2008 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Cancer Research   
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Scientists have developed nanometer-sized 'cargo ships' that can sail throughout the body via the bloodstream without immediate detection from the body’s immune radar system and ferry their cargo of anti-cancer drugs and markers into tumors that might otherwise go untreated or undetected.In a forthcoming issue of the Germany-based chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie, scientists at UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and MIT report that their nano-cargo-ship system integrates therapeutic. (source: ucsdnews.ucsd.edu)
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