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Developing a modular, nanoparticle drug delivery system

• peterevogel 19y ago
  As the son of someone who recently went through a cancer scare, I'm really excited about this stuff. I used to think chemotherapy was such a primitive therapy - flood the body with poison and hopefully it will just hurt the cancer - but this is a game changer.
• bz 19y ago
  I worked on designing something along these lines in a bioengineering design class I took for fun freshman year. The idea (for us) was motivated by the work that Ram Sasisekharan had done in his lab along these lines: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/nanocell.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/nanocell.html Some food for thought: There's a lot of control that wrapping stuff in nanomaterials could offer (targeted delivery/delayed delivery)- but the issues that you run into include material compatibility (the biggest problem) and difficulty getting to especially tricky organs like the lungs.
  • rms 19y ago
    It's really amazing how quickly cutting edge biotech trickles down to the undergraduate level.