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Nanotechnology becomes a new weapon against cancer

Shanghai scientists say they have made a leap forward in building up an other option to chemotherapy. The new technique should treat tumours securely and proficiently and have no undesirable reactions.

A group from the Shanghai Research Institute of Ceramics, an office of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said it had built up a treatment utilizing inorganic and non-dangerous nanoparticles. Nanoparticles moved through the body of the patient and focused against tumor cells. In the meantime they saved the sound cells.

Venture pioneer Shi Jianlin stated: "Tests on research center mice have demonstrated that the tumor cells were decreased by 85 percent in the wake of accepting the nano-treatment."

The nanoparticles could accordingly have a focused on impact on the tumor cells, since the microenvironment of the cells has a high corrosive and glucose content. Therefore, the nanoparticles, which are themselves substance mixes, could trigger responses in the tumor cells. It creates a profoundly lethal and dynamic substance that murders the cells specifically. His exploration group has additionally built up a nanoparticle called Mg2Si, which is innocuous in the unbiased condition of sound tissue and just triggers a response in the acidic condition of a tumor.

"The response expends a lot of oxygen atoms in the tumor. In the meantime, the vascular framework in the tumor cells is blocked. This keeps the supply of oxygen atoms and supplements. The tumor cells in the long run starve, "the researcher clarified.


Nano treatment is proposed to be a contrasting option to normal chemotherapy, which has for some time been utilized as a part of the treatment of malignancy. Notwithstanding, chemotherapy additionally influences solid cells and prompts a debilitating of the insusceptible framework, exhaustion and male pattern baldness.

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