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No Carrier Necessary: This Drug Delivers Itself

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BUFFALO, N.Y. March 19, 2007 -- The problem of efficiently delivering drugs, especially those that are hydrophobic -- or water-repellant -- to tumors or other disease sites has long challenged scientists to develop innovative delivery systems that keep these drugs intact until reaching their targets. Now scientists in the University at Buffalo's Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics and Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) have developed an innovative solution in which the delivery system is the drug itself. They describe for the first time, in Molecular Pharmaceutics, a drug delivery system that consists...Read full article

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    Published: March 2007
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    An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
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