Chemical ‘Sponges’ Designed To Soak Up Toxic Cancer-Fighting Drugs After Targeting Tumors, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Reveals

Doctors have a powerful arsenal of cancer-fighting chemotherapy drugs to choose from, though a key challenge is to better target these drugs to kill tumors while limiting their potentially harmful side effects.

Now, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are helping to develop and test materials for a new device that can be inserted via a tiny tube into a vein and soak up most of these drugs like a sponge.

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