A tiny rod diverts inoperable tumour cells away from the brain and into a pool filled with a lethal drug.
“The residual tumour that didn’t enter the fibre shrank by almost 90 per cent,” says Bellamkonda. “We did a careful analysis to make sure that we weren’t just giving another route for the tumour to grow into, but it showed that essentially we displaced the tumour from one location to another.”
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