Friday, August 21, 2020

New 'molecular computers' find the right cells

New nanoscale devices, made of synthetic proteins, have been designed to target a therapeutic agent only to cells with a specific, predetermined combinations of cell surface markers. They operate on their own and search out cells they were programmed to find. The hope is that they might guide CAR T cancer therapy, and other treatments where precision is critical, through a sort of molecular beacon.

from Health & Medicine News -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200820143838.htm

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