A nanoparticle gene delivery system has been developed by scientists that destroys brain gliomas in a rat model, significantly extending the lives of the treated animals. The nanoparticles are filled ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers have designed a nanoparticle transport system for gene delivery that destroys deadly brain gliomas in a rat model, significantly extending the lives of the treated animals.

Gene therapy may effectively treat glioma, a deadly form of brain cancer, but getting the right genes to cancer cells in the brain is difficult. For the first time, Johns Hopkins researchers used ...

With the system, nanoparticles are packed with genes. The genes related to a specific enzyme that converts a pro-drug termed ganciclovir into a chemical that can wipe out glioma cells. Glioma is a ...

Researchers funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) have designed a nanoparticle transport system for gene delivery that destroys deadly brain gliomas in a ...