Images of Research: Hope for humanity
Fighting cancer
Category: Hope for humanity
Genes could be promising medicines to treat cancer, but their use is limited by a lack of carriers able to specifically deliver them to tumours. We have developed a new 鈥渟eek-and-destroy鈥� nanomedicine that has led to the disappearance of up to 90% of tumours in laboratory settings. This image shows the cancer (鈥渢he crab鈥�) being surrounded by 鈥渟eek-and-destroy鈥� nanomedicines (鈥済rey vesicles鈥� on the arrows).
Entrant: Christine Dufes , Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
Copyright: Christine Dufes
Funding: Initial research project funded by Worldwide Cancer Research (ex-AICR), ref: 16-1303
Collaborators: Margaret Mullin
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