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Nanobot Delivers Drugs to Cells Then Self Destructs

30-May-2017

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Radboud University researchers assembled a synthetic nanoscale vesicle - a kind of bladder that can be filled with liquids.

Self-propelled with a chemical nanomotor that uses hydrogen peroxide for fuel.

Operates autonomously, reacting to specific chemical triggers in the vicinity of cancer cells.

After penetrating through the cell wall glutathione, found in cancerous tumors, dissolves the bladder's bonds.

Vesicle self-destructs, releasing its payload of anti-cancer drugs.

The study was published in the Angewandte Chemie journal.

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Angewandte Chemie

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Radboud University

State funded Roman Catholic university, Netherlands

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