Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Nano packages for anti-cancer drug delivery,Cancer stem cells are resistant to chemotherapy and consequently tend to remain in the body even after a course of treatment has finished, where they can often trigger cancer recurrence or metastasis.

Cancer stem cells are resistant to chemotherapy and consequently remain inside a body even after chemotherapy even after the course of treatment is finished where they can trigger cancer recurrence or metastasis.

A new study by researchers from the A*STAR Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology has found that using nanoparticles to deliver an anti-cancer drug that simultaneously kills cancer cells and cancer stem cells significantly reduces the recurrence  and metastasis of lung cancer.

 

The drug phenformin is very effective  against cancer stem cells.It is related to the popular anti-diabetic drug metformin but is 50 times more potent against cancer cell lines.However, phenformin is too toxic in its free form to be administered to patients at the doses required to kill both normal cancer cells and cancer stem cells.

 

Now, Yi Yan Yang and her colleagues at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore have found a way to overcome this problem—using self-assembling  polymer nanoparticles to deliver the drug .

In the first study to use to deliver phenformin to target both cancer cells and cancer stem cells, Yang

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-03-nano-packages-anti-cancer-drug-delivery.html#jCp

 

 

The drug phenformin is very effective against cancer stem cells. It is related to the popular anti-diabetic drug metformin but is 50 times more potent against cancer cell lines. However, phenformin is too toxic in its free form to be administered to patients at the doses required to kill both normal and cancer stem cells. Now, Yi Yan Yang and her colleagues at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore have found a way to overcome this problem—using self-assembling polymer to deliver the drug.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-03-nano-packages-anti-cancer-drug-delivery.html#jCp

 

The drug phenformin is very effective against cancer stem cells. It is related to the popular anti-diabetic drug metformin but is 50 times more potent against cancer cell lines. However, phenformin is too toxic in its free form to be administered to patients at the doses required to kill both normal and cancer stem cells. Now, Yi Yan Yang and her colleagues at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore have found a way to overcome this problem—using self-assembling polymer to deliver the drug.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-03-nano-packages-anti-cancer-drug-delivery.html#jCp
The drug phenformin is very effective against cancer stem cells. It is related to the popular anti-diabetic drug metformin but is 50 times more potent against cancer cell lines. However, phenformin is too toxic in its free form to be administered to patients at the doses required to kill both normal and cancer stem cells. Now, Yi Yan Yang and her colleagues at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore have found a way to overcome this problem—using self-assembling polymer to deliver the drug.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-03-nano-packages-anti-cancer-drug-delivery.html#jCp
The drug phenformin is very effective against cancer stem cells. It is related to the popular anti-diabetic drug metformin but is 50 times more potent against cancer cell lines. However, phenformin is too toxic in its free form to be administered to patients at the doses required to kill both normal and cancer stem cells. Now, Yi Yan Yang and her colleagues at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore have found a way to overcome this problem—using self-assembling polymer to deliver the drug.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-03-nano-packages-anti-cancer-drug-delivery.html#jCp
The drug phenformin is very effective against cancer stem cells. It is related to the popular anti-diabetic drug metformin but is 50 times more potent against cancer cell lines. However, phenformin is too toxic in its free form to be administered to patients at the doses required to kill both normal and cancer stem cells. Now, Yi Yan Yang and her colleagues at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore have found a way to overcome this problem—using self-assembling polymer to deliver the drug.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-03-nano-packages-anti-cancer-drug-delivery.html#jCp
simultaneously kills cancer cells and cancer stem cells significantly reduces the recurrence and metastasis of lung cancer

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-03-nano-packages-anti-cancer-drug-delivery.html#jCp
simultaneously kills cancer cells and cancer stem cells significantly reduces the recurrence and metastasis of lung cancer

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-03-nano-packages-anti-cancer-drug-delivery.html#jCp
Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology has found that using nanoparticles to deliver an anti-cancer drug that simultaneously kills cancer cells and cancer stem cells significantly reduces the recurrence and metastasis of lung cancer.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-03-nano-packages-anti-cancer-drug-delivery.html#jCp

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Cancer stem cells are resistant to chemotherapy and consequently tend to remain in the body even after a course of treatment has finished, where they can often trigger cancer recurrence or metastasis. A new study by researchers from the A*STAR Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology has found that using nanoparticles to deliver an anti-cancer drug that simultaneously kills cancer cells and cancer stem cells significantly reduces the recurrence and metastasis of lung cancer.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-03-nano-packages-anti-cancer-drug-delivery.html#jCp

 

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