“Delivering chemotherapy drugs in nanoparticle form could help reduce side effects by targeting the cancer drugs directly to the tumors. In recent years, scientists have developed nanoparticles that deliver one or two chemotherapy drugs, but it has been difficult to design particles that can carry any more than that in a precise ratio.
“Now MIT chemists have devised a new way to build such nanoparticles, making it much easier to include three or more different drugs. In a paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the researchers showed that they could load their particles with three drugs commonly used to treat ovarian cancer and lower side effects.” via sciencecodex.com</a&>. Posted 4/15/2014.
