EU RESEARCHERS USE NANOPARTICLES TO HELP DRUGS TARGET TUMOURS
January 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project is developing nanotechnology-based medicine able to deliver targeted drugs to kill cancer tumours. The Euro 11 million NANOTHER project, coordinated by the GAIKER-IK4 Technological Centre, in Spain's Basque Country, is creating medicines based on two types of nanoparticles:
*'polymeric' particles, which direct therapeutic compounds to tumours and include antibodies capable of recognising and attacking tumour cells; plus
*'magnetic' particles, also helping find tumours, while aiding their elimination ...
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