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January 07, 2015

'Flying carpet' uses graphene to deliver one-two punch
Raleigh NC (SPX) Jan 07, 2015
An international team of researchers has developed a drug delivery technique that utilizes graphene strips as "flying carpets" to deliver two anticancer drugs sequentially to cancer cells, with each drug targeting the distinct part of the cell where it will be most effective. The technique was found to perform better than either drug in isolation when tested in a mouse model targeting a human lung cancer tumor. The researchers also found that an anticancer protein, TRAIL, can serve as an act ... read more

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