Targeted nanoparticles boost platinum-based anticancer therapy (News-Medical-Net)

A research team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-Harvard Center for Nanotechnology Excellence has custom-designed nanoparticles that can deliver the anticancer drug cisplatin specifically to prostate cancer cells.
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This entry was posted on Friday, November 21st, 2008 at 4:26 am and is filed under Technology.