In a study reported in the
Journal of Controlled Release, researchers from Okayama University describe the use of nanocarriers in selectively transporting anticancer drugs to brain tumors.
Glioblastoma is an aggressive form of brain cancer that is best treated with boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT). BNCT involves the use of an agent that delivers boron into tumor tissues. When subsequently hit with radiation, boron (typically the 10B isotope is used) emits particles that kill neighboring cells. However, current methods do not cargo boron into cancer cells homogenously. Now, Associate professor MICHIUE Hiroyuki and Okayama university Neutron Therapy Research Center (NTRC) team have successfully used a nanocarrier that selectively delivers boron into brain tumors.
Okayama University research: Nanotechnology for making cancer drugs more accessible to the brain
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Ekklesia | Netherlands violated child s right to acquire a nationality, UN Committee finds
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InfoMigrants By Marion MacGregor Published on : 2020/12/31
The rights of a 10-year-old boy were denied when the Netherlands failed to acknowledge that he was stateless and eligible for international protection, a UN committee has found. It is the first such decision on the right of children to acquire nationality.
The UN Human Rights Committee has determined that Dutch authorities violated the rights of a 10-year-old boy, Denny Z., by registering him as “nationality unknown,” rather than stateless.
Denny was born in the Dutch city of Utrecht in 2010 to a Chinese mother who had been trafficked to the Netherlands in 2004 at the age of 15 and forced into prostitution.