Tiny Weapons With Giant Potential.

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  • Author(s): Breslau, Karen
  • Source:
    Newsweek. 6/24/2002, Vol. 139 Issue 25, p72. 2p. 3 Color Photographs, 3 Diagrams.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      NANOTECHNOLOGY; DRUG delivery systems; PHARMACEUTICAL technology; FULLERENES; NANOSTRUCTURED materials
    • Abstract:
      Discusses nanoscale drug delivery in the medical war against cancer, AIDS, diabetes and other diseases. Work of oncologist Dr. Uri Sagman, president of nanotechnology company C Sixty; How C Sixty is developing carbon molecules, or fullerenes, as a drug-delivery system; Background on nanotechnology, the science of assembling materials one atom at a time; How individual cells, instead of tissues or organs, are targeted; Focus of nanotechnology company NTera of Dublin, Ireland; Outlook.