Nanoparticles Silence Childhood Cancer

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Nanoparticles have been used to silence growth-promoting genes in a type of cancer called Ewing's sarcoma that affects children.

Shown to work in an animal model of the disease, the Trojan horse approach utilizes a protein called transferrin that normally delivers iron into cells.
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