These unique nanoparticles would surely do good to the world of medicine. Researchers from U.S. have developed novel nanoparticles which can be used for sending medicines deep inside the lungs and penetrate cancer cells without affecting the normal cells. The technique has been developed by Princeton University researchers and these nanoparticles are thousand times thinner than a strand of human hair and can be loaded with imaging enhancing agents or medicines.
The technique is called Flash NanoPrecipitation and it enables researchers to mix drugs and materials to be transported with nanoparticles. Though they are large enough to pass through cell membranes but can surely move through defects in the capillaries of solid tumors.
The combination of materials science and chemistry has enabled something concrete which was not possible earlier. The researchers stated that earlier there was no good route for incorporating drugs and imaging agents in nanoparticles but this work will surely go a long way in benefiting the world of medicine.
Via sciencedaily
