Rice, MD Anderson scientists refine technique for attacking
hard-to-reach tumors
Short, customized carbon nanotubes have the potential to
deliver drugs to pancreatic cancer cells and destroy them from within,
according to researchers at Rice University and the University of Texas MD
Anderson Cancer Center.
Pristine nanotubes produced through a new process developed
at Rice can be modified to carry drugs to tumors through gaps in blood-vessel
walls that larger particles cannot fit through.