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Attacks Cancer Cells from Inside Combining nature and Greek
mythology, researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of
Technology have developed a tiny "Trojan Horse" system for
delivering cancer-fighting drugs. With this system, the drugs
are delivered only once they are inside the cancerous cells, so
there is no damage to the healthy cells in the surrounding area.
The researchers created the system by attaching folic acid and
an anticancer drug to an extract from the coniferous Larix
(Larch) tree, which is among the dominant plants in the immense
boreal forests of Russia and Canada. “We were looking for a
natural polymer that would be highly soluble in water, and found
it in a polysaccharide known as arabinogalactan, which is
extracted from the Larix,” explai