Red-blood-cell 'hitchhikers' offer new way to transport drugs to specific targets

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) A new drug-delivery technology which uses red blood cells to shuttle nano-scale drug carriers, called RBC-hitchhiking, has been found in animal models to dramatically increase the concentration of drugs ferried precisely to selected organs,
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news