A team led by Prof. Horacio Espinosa and Assist. Prof. Dean Ho at the McCormick School of Engineering have shown that nanomaterials can shuttle chemotherapy drugs to cells without producing the negative effects of today's delivery agents.Clusters of the nanodiamonds surround the drugs to ensure that they remain separated from healthy cells until they reach the cancer cells, where they are released.
The work was supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the V Foundation for Cancer Research and the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation and the results were recently published online in the scientific journal Small.
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