Nanoparticles engineered to shuttle cancer drug past immune system

Originally posted on Spoonful of Medicine - a blog from Nature MedicineThe body’s first line of defense, known as the innate immune system, protects against foreign invaders, including tiny microbes, bacteria or viruses. Yet it also poses a major challenge for therapeutic applications that rely on microscopic drug-delivering vehicles, or nanoparticles. These nanoparticles are in the same size range as many pathogens and are quickly detected and destroyed by macrophages, the innate immune […]