“Nanomedicine can cure cancer”
A genetic researcher Dr. Rao Papineni from India, in cooperation with American scientists, has developed a technique to treat cancer cells by using nanomedicine (medical nanotechnology). Nanomedicine has been known as a tool to design new ways of treating cancer, thus not affecting the healthy cells.
“We have developed image-guided targeted cancer-cell killers. The unique aspect is that we can deliver large loads of drugs to the cancerous region without actually affecting the healthy cells,” said Dr. Papineni.
The new method will be presented during the BioAsia 2009 convention. Dr. Papineni said that the technique is currently in the U.S. patent procedure. “We are hoping that people back home here [India] will notice such developments during the BioAsia 2009. I have already presented a paper on the same subject in Nanobio-2009 held recently in Kochi,” he said.
The team of scientists plan to use this invention to treat prostate cancer first, but all other types of cancer will follow.
Source: siasat.com
