Research
Oct 20, 2006
Nanotubes shed light on cancer therapies
Radiotherapy is pretty good at killing cancer cells, even if the fine detail of how the radiation does its work at the cellular and subcellular level is not yet fully understood. Getting a handle on those radiation-cell interactions is the challenge confronting a team of researchers at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC), US, who believe that their experiments with carbon nanotubes hold the key to figuring out what's going on – a breakthrough that, if realized, could lead to the development of more-effective cancer therapies.
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