Tiny Capsule Delivers Anti-Cancer Drugs Inside Tumors

Two teams of scientists, working independently, have developed a way to give a patient multiple cancer drugs simultaneously, to see which works best. The two groups have different approaches, but each starts with the premise that it’s best to test anti-cancer drugs in the living tumor. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the result is a very small device that can be placed inside a tumor. Though it’s less than a millimeter in diameter, it has 30 to 40 tiny reservoirs...

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