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Chemistry World April 11, 2006 Jon Evans	Nanotechnology Tackles Chemotherapy Chemists and medical researchers have developed nanoparticles that target chemotherapy drugs directly at tumours. The researchers claim that the same technique could be used to develop nanoparticle-based treatments for a wide range of other diseases.
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