I am excited about this…and it’d be nice to see this being used with childhood cancers

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'Flying carpet' technique uses graphene to deliver one-two punch of anticancer drugs 

(Phys.org)—An international team of researchers has developed a drug delivery technique that utilizes graphene strips as “flying carpets” to deliver two anticancer drugs sequentially to cancer cells, with each drug targeting the distinct part of the cell where it will be most effective. The technique was found to perform better than either drug in isolation when tested in a mouse model targeting a human lung cancer tumor.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-01-carpet-technique-graphene-one-two-anticancer.html

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