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‘Cloaked’ chemo agents can treat lung cancer with 1/50th normal dose
‘Cloaked’ chemo agents can treat lung cancer with 1/50th normal dose | ExtremeTech
Science rocks!!! The more we move forward the better for humanity.
‘Cloaked’ chemo agents can treat lung cancer with 1/50th normal dose | ExtremeTech
A team of researchers from UNC Chapel Hill just made an intriguing and potentially revolutionary announcement: By using the body’s own “exosomes,” they have not only developed a powerful new way to diagnose cancer, but a sort of invisibility cloak that can help keep chemotherapy drugs safe in the patient’s system. The team’s research shows that by using one of the body’s own natural structures to hide their chemotherapeutic drugs, they were able to have normal therapeutic effects with about a fiftieth of the overall dose.
What is an exosome? It’s a bit of cell membrane that has “budded” off from the cell itself, basically pinched off by a little protein lasso into a much, much smaller little cell with little, or a specific list of things, inside of it. Exosomes are used to ferry signaling molecules between cells, to eliminate wastes, even as a crude way of getting rid of unwanted cell surface proteins — just throw them off.
Science rocks!!! The more we move forward the better for humanity.