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What allows particles to enter cells may surprise you

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David L. Shenkenberg

For years, scientists have been coming up with ways to make drugs, particularly highly toxic chemotherapy treatments, safer for patients. It would revolutionize medicine if the drugs could be packaged such that they keep the healthy parts of the body safe and enter only the cells of the tumor or other locations of the disease. But getting drugs into cells is not easy. Sometimes researchers have used heat or mild electricity to induce transient pores in the cell membrane so that the drug can pass through, but this strategy damages cells. At other times, the cell takes in the drug but expels...Read full article

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    Published: August 2008
    biological moleculesBiophotonicsCoatingsMicroscopyNews & Featuressynthetic drug coatingstoxic chemotherapy treatments

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