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HEALTH REPORT - Scientists Work on a 'Smart Bomb' Against Cancer
By Cynthia Kirk
Broadcast: Wednesday, August 24, 2005
I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Health Report.
Scientists have developed a new cancer drug. So far, they have tested it in only in laboratory1 animals. The drug is designed to invade2 and kill cancer cells but not healthy cells.
First, the drug enters the cancer and destroys the supply of blood. Then it releases4 poison to destroy the cancer cells.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge carried out the study. The results appeared in Nature magazine. A school news release3 called the drug an "anti-cancer smart bomb."
Ram5 Sasisekharan is a professor at M.I.T. He says his team had to solve three problems. They had to find a way to destroy the blood vessels6, then to prevent the growth of new ones. But they also needed the blood vessels to supply chemicals to destroy the cancer.
So, the researchers designed a two-part "nanocell." The cell is measured in nanometers, or one thousand-millionth of a meter. The particle7 used was two hundred nanometers -- much, much smaller than a human hair.
The scientists say it was small enough to pass through the blood vessels of the cancer. But it was too big to enter normal blood vessels. The surface of the nanocells also helped them to avoid natural defenses.
The scientists designed the cell as a balloon inside a balloon. They loaded the outer part with a drug that caused the blood vessels to fall in on themselves. That cut off the blood supply and trapped the nanocell inside the cancer. Then, the nanocell slowly released8 chemotherapy drugs to kill the cancer cells.
The team says the treatment shrank9 the cancer and avoided healthy cells better than other treatments. Untreated mice with cancer survived for twenty days. The scientists say mice with the best current treatments lived thirty days. But they say eighty percent of the mice treated with the nanocells lived more than sixty-five days.
The study involved two different forms of cancer. The team says the treatment worked better against melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, than against lung cancer. However, more studies are needed before the new drug can be tested in humans.
This VOA Special English Health Report was written by Cynthia Kirk. I'm Steve Ember.
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n.实验室,化验室 | |
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v.侵略,侵犯;闯入,侵扰 | |
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vt.发布,发表,发行;释放,放开 | |
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v.释放( release的第三人称单数 );放开;发布;发行 | |
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(random access memory)随机存取存储器 | |
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n.血管( vessel的名词复数 );船;容器;(具有特殊品质或接受特殊品质的)人 | |
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n.微粒,颗粒,粒子;小品词,语助词 | |
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v.释放( release的过去式和过去分词 );放开;发布;发行 | |
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动词shrink的过去式 | |
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