Researchers tagged gold nanoparticles with a small dose of radiation to trace the particles as they deliver a drug into the heart of a cancer cell, according to work presented at the 2016 National Cancer Research Institute conference.
A team of researchers from the Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology worked to deliver drugs to the “control room” of cancer cells, where the chromosomes are kept. The drug targets telomerase, the building blocks of telomeres at the end of chromosomes.
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