Thursday, February 08, 2007

Carnegie Mellon Mechanical Engineering Researcher Proposes Development of Artificial Cells To Fight Disease

Source: Carnegie Mellon University
Date: February 7, 2007

Summary:

Carnegie Mellon University's Philip LeDuc predicts the use of artificially created cells could be a potential new therapeutic approach for treating diseases in an ever-changing world. LeDuc, an assistant professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering, penned an article for the January edition of Nature Nanotechnology Journal about the efficacy of using man-made cells to treat diseases without injecting drugs.