Nanotechnology Used to Deliver Treatment to Cancer Cells
U.S. researchers have found a way to combat cancer growth with the use of nano-tech robots in the bloodstream. A team from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, created a way to make and send robots through the blood, they target the cancer cells within a tumor. The robots are created through nanotechnology, which is the science of small objects. These nano-robots are polymer and covered with transferrin which is a type of protein.
The team was looking to target RNA, which stands for ribonucleic acid. It’s a chemical messenger that plays a very big role in the disease process. It makes proteins that are in diseases such as AIDS and cancer.
The biggest problem in the past has been getting the treatment to the target within the body. Through nanotechnology, the team was able to send the particles through the bloodstream. These particles hunt down cancer cells and get inside them. Once inside they break down and release siRNAs which blocks the cancer growth protein known as ribonucleotide reductase.
Other teams working on similar studies have all focused on using fats or lipids to deliver the treatment. This is the first team to use nanotechnology in this way.
Am Lebanese male 61 years was diaginized with prostate cancer & had a Radicalsurgery on oct 2006 &
now am stage 4 I had Hormones,Radioo & Chemo therapy
but PSA still playing it is now 20 ; Does nano therapy helps me. pls reply