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MIT researchers have developed a new way to fight glioblastoma brain cancer and it utilizes nanoparticles to deliver two different drugs to the tumor. The researchers have used the nanoparticles in mice and found that it crosses the blood-brain barrier with ease and delivers the drugs directly to the tumor. The nanoparticles have resulted in the shrinking of the tumors and prevented them from growing back. This really is a huge step forward for cancer treatment and nanotechnology. Hopefully they can get this quickly approved by the FDA so it can start helping people like Senator McCain.
“This is yet another example where the combination of nanoparticle delivery with drugs involving the DNA-damage response can be used successfully to treat cancer,” says Michael Yaffe, a David H. Koch Professor of Science and member of the Koch Institute, who is also an author of the paper.
“This is yet another example where the combination of nanoparticle delivery with drugs involving the DNA-damage response can be used successfully to treat cancer,” says Michael Yaffe, a David H. Koch Professor of Science and member of the Koch Institute, who is also an author of the paper.
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