Killing cancer with chemotherapy is a lot like a drone strike. The targeting is rarely precise enough to avoid collateral damage. Recently, researchers have been dreaming about killing tumours – while not further damaging a sick person – with seek-and-destroy nano-robots that would carry their deadly payloads through the body and only unleash them on cancer […]
Scientists from the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA have developed a nanoparticle delivery system for the antibiotic moxifloxacin that vastly improves the drug’s effectiveness against pneumonic tularemia, a type of pneumonia caused by inhalation of the bacterium Francisella tularensis. The study, which appears in the journal ACS Nano, shows how the nanoparticle system targets the […]
