Cancer-Targeted Nanoparticles Become Temperature “Intelligent”

Thermal self-regulating nanoparticles that seek out and destroy cancer cells may sound like something pulled from the new Blade Runner movie script, but researchers at the University of Surrey have developed the therapy for use today. The “intelligent” nanoparticle, which heats up to a temperature high enough to kill cancerous cells, self-regulate and lose heat before they get hot enough to harm healthy tissue. Findings from the new study—published today in Nanoscale in an arti