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Nanotechnology in Cancer
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As cancer treatment shifts from non-specific cytotoxic molecules towards multifunctional targeted therapies, nanotechnology promises new approaches for earlier detection, diagnosis and prevention. With the impressive and rapid progress made in this area, it is hoped that nanotechnology-based applications will safely translate into the clinic to fight cancer. In this collection, a selection of papers present the opportunities, challenges and progress made in imaging, delivery systems, detection and safety of the new materials and approaches. We believe that you will enjoy this collection of papers originally published in Nature Publishing Group journals.
Current Research
in vivo biodistribution and highly efficient tumour targeting of carbon nanotubes in mice
Zhuang Liu et al.
Nature Nanotechnology 2, 47–52 (2006). doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.170
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Rapid and label-free nanomechanical detection of biomarker transcripts in human RNA
J. Zhang et al.
Nature Nanotechnology 1, 214–220 (2006). doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.134
Co-delivery of drugs and DNA from cationic core–shell nanoparticles self-assembled from a biodegradable copolymer
Yong Wang, Shujun Gao, Wen-Hui Ye, Ho Sup Yoon & Yi-Yan Yang
Nature Materials 5, 791–796 (2006). doi:10.1038/nmat1737
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Self-illuminating quantum dot conjugates for in vivo imaging
Min-Kyung So, Chenjie Xu, Andreas M Loening, Sanjiv S Gambhir & Jianghong Rao
Nature Biotechnology 24, 339–343 (2006). doi:10.1038/nbt1188
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Temporal targeting of tumour cells and neovasculature with a nanoscale delivery system
Shiladitya Sengupta et al.
Nature 436, 568–572 (2005). doi:10.1038/nature03794
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Quantum dots spectrally distinguish multiple species within the tumor milieu in vivo
Mark Stroh et al.
Nature Medicine 11, 678–682 (2005). doi:10.1038/nm1247
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Cancer nanotechnology: opportunities and challenges
Mauro Ferrari
Nature Reviews Cancer 5, 161–171 (2005). doi:10.1038/nrc1566
