Targeted drug delivery is a hot topic these days. Chemotherapy, for example, blindly kills anything in its path — these drugs don’t distinguish between healthy cells and cancerous cells; they just kill cells. Period. Professor Vladimir Torchilin and his buddies at the Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence are developing nanoscale drug delivery technologies, which I ...
Nanotechnology is a huge field. When I worked at a nanomaterials start-up my dad would often ask me about developments in nanomedicine and I had no clue what to say. Nanotechnology enables new applications in medicine, electronics, materials — pretty much anything you can imagine. But, fundamentally, it’s pretty simple: It’s about making things so ...
The biggest challenge to killing cancer cells is the “protective armor” or shield around a tumor — that’s according to Professor Mansoor Amiji of the Bouve College of Health Sciences‘ School of Pharmacy. Amiji’s lab is trying to find ways to break through that barrier using nanomedicine. Cancer cells grow in acidic, oxygen-deprived environments — ...