Nanocapsule reaches cancer that has spread to central nervous system in mice

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(Funded by the National Institutes of Health)

UCLA researchers loaded nanocapsules with the cancer-fighting drug rituximab to create a drug delivery system that breaks through the blood-brain barrier. The approach could be useful not only for cancers that metastasize to the central nervous system but also for primary brain tumors or other brain diseases.