Warren Chan, University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering (IMAGE)

University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering

Warren Chan, University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering

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U of T Engineering professor Warren Chan has spent the last decade figuring out how to deliver chemotherapy drugs into tumours -- and nowhere else. Now his lab has designed a set of nanoparticles attached to strands of DNA that can change shape to gain access to diseased tissue.

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