Anticancer Nanotech: Protein Can Be Used To Carry Radioactive Isotopes To Cancerous Tumor

September 23, 2009 | Source: ScienceDaily

Nanospheres of Albumin, a protein found in the blood, can be used to carry radioactive isotopes to the site of a cancerous tumor in the body, avoiding many of the side-effects of conventional radiotherapy, researchers at the National Institute of R&D for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, in Bucharest have found.