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Cancer therapy breakthrough in vitro using self-assembled drugs

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A team of scientists has discovered chemical systems that self-assemble into molecular capsules which are highly toxic towards human cancer cells of a range of different tumor types, and which have demonstrated unprecedented cancer selectivity in the laboratory that in some cases are many thousands of times more toxic to the cancer cells compared to healthy, normal cells.

Source: ScienceDaily.com