ELeCt-ing a better candidate for chemo delivery

Chemo drugs are notoriously toxic, in part because so little of the drug actually gets to its target organ, requiring high doses. Scientists have now found a way to deliver nanoparticles filled with chemo to the lungs with 10x greater success by ‘hitchhiking’ them onto red blood cells, leading to drastically improved survival in mice with metastatic lung cancer.

Source: sciencedaily.com

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