Berlin: Chemotherapy is the most widely used method of treating cancer, but it affects healthy cells and has many side effects. To that end, a new type of nanoparticle has been developed that attacks cancer and kills it.
The Department of Chemistry at Ludwig Macmillan University in Germany, Dr. Constantine von Schurding, Dr. Hina Angelka and Thomas Byne have created a brand new type of nanoparticles. They are made of calcium and citrate and cross many barriers inside the body to reach the cancer cells directly.
Experts believe that calcium phosphate and citrate play an important role in the process of cell signaling. That’s why nanoparticles made of calcium phosphate and citrate are wrapped in a lipid sheath. Once inside the cancer cells, it dissolves against lipids and spreads by absorbing large amounts of calcium and citrate into the cell’s cytoplasm.
When they were placed on laboratory-grown cancer cells, they successfully removed the cancer cells but left the healthy cells intact. They were then tested on mice and found very promising results. Nanoparticles reduced the size of cancerous tumors by 40 to 70 percent. Within two months these amazing results were received and no side effects were observed.