Nano-sized technology has super-sized effect on tumors

Anyone facing chemotherapy would welcome an advance promising to dramatically reduce their dose of these often harsh drugs.

Using nanotechnology, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have taken a step closer to that goal.


 

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