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Codebreaker

Nano-car may change chemotherapy

Larissa Anderson Sep 20, 2010

The nano vehicle is full of chemotherapy drugs. It drives straight into cancer cells and releases the payload — doesn’t react and release chemo drugs into healthy cells. After delivering the drugs, the nano-car then decomposes in the body. It’s a little cancer-killing car-bomb.

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