Nano disks can kill cancer cells

In the future, cancer treatment may be just injecting small and almost invisible "discs" into the human body.

These special plates will "teach" the body how to kill cancer cells.

According to Engadget, scientists at the University of Michigan (USA) have had initial success in testing 10 nanometer "nano disks" . These special plates will "teach" the body how to kill cancer cells. Each disc will be filled with newly formed cancer antigen (neoantigens) or tumor-specific mutations will notify T cells of the body's immune system to recognize neoantigens and kill them. When connecting this system to immunosuppressive inhibitors (which promote T cell response), it not only kills existing tumors, but also prevents them from forming again. later.

Until now, the testing process is limited to rats but the results are very promising. These nanoparticles take only 10 days to remove the tumor, and completely destroy the identified tumors when returned to the body 70 days later.

For researchers, the big challenge now is to scale up tests on larger animals and on humans. If this method proves successful on humans, just the doctors get a sample of cancer cells, they will have the opportunity to eliminate the pathogen.