Red-blood-cell 'hitchhikers' offer new way to transport drugs to specific targets: New drug delivery technology aims to decrease side effects and improve efficacy
Date | 1st, Aug 2018 |
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Source | ScienceDaily - General News Websites |
DESCRIPTION
A new drug-delivery technology which uses red blood cells to shuttle nano-scale drug carriers, called RBC-hitchhiking, has been found in animal models to dramatically increase the concentration of drugs ferried precisely to selected organs,