Researchers develop new nanoparticle to deliver drugs to immune system cells

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(Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Energy)

A team of researchers from Vanderbilt University, Northwestern University, and the University of Rhode Island has developed a novel method for producing nanoparticles of diverse morphologies that can act as nanocarriers for delivering therapeutics to cells. The researchers used these nanocarriers to deliver a molecule that can boost the immune system to fight viral infections and a molecule that can slow melanoma tumor growth. The novel method is industrially scalable, and the diverse shapes and sizes of nanocarriers that can be produced may allow the delivery of distinct biomolecular cargos for therapeutic applications addressing a variety of diseases.

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