Thursday, August 18, 2016

New cancer-drug delivery system

Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence reports that the system uses magnetically guided bacteria to target cancerous tumors with high precision:
Researchers from Polytechnique Montréal, Université de Montréal, and McGill University have designed a new cancer-drug-delivery nanotransporter system using more than 100 million flagellated, self-propelled bacteria that are capable of navigating through the bloodstream to administer a drug to tumors with precision.* The goal of the research is to avoid jeopardizing the integrity of organs and surrounding healthy tissues while reducing drug dosage.
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