This discovery would surely help in churning out better drugs for treatment of diseases. U.S researchers have found out that string like nanoparticles equal to viruses which move in the blood for up to ten times longer as compared to spherical nanoparticles, the shape could help in creating better drug delivery vehicles for cancer treatment. This may turn out to be really beneficial for researchers involved in creating cancer drugs.
Soft filamentous polymers have been found to circulate for more than a week in the case of rats but this is a fairly long time as compared to spherical nanoparticles which get cleared from the body within hours. The circulation time has been found out to depend upon how the filaments fragment as a result of liquid flow and interaction with the cells and therefore this research has found a place in the Nature Nanotechnology journal issue of April.
Via scienceahead
