by Jade Boyd, Rice University Credit: CC0 Public Domain Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine researchers have shown they can eradicate advanced-stage mesothelioma tumors in mice in just a few days with a treatment combining Rice’s cytokine “drug factory” implants and a checkpoint inhibitor drug. The researchers administered the drug-producing beads, which are no...
By Nick Lavars March 02, 2022 Bioengineer Omid Veiseh with bead-like anti-cancer implants developed at Rice University Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Among the many challenges in treating tumors is the difficulty in getting anti-cancer drugs to the right locations, and in the right amounts. A new type of implant developed at Rice University tackles both these...
by Rice University Rice University bioengineer Omid Veiseh with a vial of bead-like implants his lab invented to serve as anti-cancer drug factories. Veiseh and colleagues showed the implants could eradicate ovarian and colorectal cancer in mice in as little as six days. Credit: “Jeff Fitlow/Rice University” Rice University bioengineers have shown they can eradicate...
