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Source: Dailytech

Another nanoscale anti-cancer device has arrived on the growing scene. Similar to MIT’s sticky nanoparticles, the new treatment would involve a sticky “nanoworm.” The particles, developed jointly by scientists at the Universities of California at San Diego and Santa Barbara along with MIT, resembles a gummi worm made of small spheres.

The worms are made from spherical nanoparticles of iron oxide, joined together and coated with a polymer derived from dextran. Each worm consists of eight nanoparticles and measures approximately 30 nanometers in length. That makes them about three million times smaller than their earthworm brethren.