Scientists from the China-US Team have created a new plant-based nanoparticle treatment to fight glioblastoma, a type of brain cancer that grows quickly and is very hard to treat.
Researchers from Renmin Hospital at Wuhan University and Yale University worked together to discover that a plant compound called bardoxolone methyl (BM) can form nanoparticles.
These tiny particles, which are only 50 to 80 nanometers wide, are designed to find and destroy cancer cells in mice.
What's special about these nanoparticles is that they are small enough to pass through the brain's protective barrier, which usually makes treating brain cancers difficult.
In their tests, the researchers showed that these nanoparticles could effectively target and kill cancer cells, offering new hope for treating glioblastoma.
This plant-based approach could be a promising new direction in cancer treatments, combining natural compounds with advanced technology to attack tumors directly.
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