clipped from: www.mercurynews.com Carbon nanotubes could be the key to better chemotherapy for cancer patients, Stanford University researchers have found.
A team including chemistry professor Hongjie Dai and graduate student Zhuang Liu showed that the tiny tubes can deliver drugs to tumor cells much more precisely than existing treatments. That means less of the harmful medication spills over into healthy cells, limiting collateral damage.
The breakthrough was published in the Aug. 15 issue of the journal Cancer Research.