Slideshow: A Nanotech Cure for Cancer?

Scientists are developing minute particles that can detect cancerous cells far sooner than current techniques and can deliver cancer-destroying agents with unprecedented precision. By Brandon Keim.
A drugcarrying dendrimer approaches a cancer cell docks in a receptor and releases its deadly payload.
A drug-carrying dendrimer approaches a cancer cell, docks in a receptor and releases its deadly payload.Courtesy of NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer

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Dendrimer visualization from Dr. James Baker's laboratory at the University of Michigan Nanotechnology Institute.

Courtesy of Dr. James Baker, University of Michigan Nanotechnology Institute