Buckyballs Boost Antibody's Chemotherapy Payload

... In the search for better ways to target anticancer drugs, researchers at Rice University and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center find that nanoparticles called buckyballs can boost the payload of drugs carried by tumor-targeting antibodies. Research published online in Chemical Communications describes a new class of anti-cancer compound that contains both tumor-targeting antibodies and buckyballs, soccer ball-shaped molecules of pure carbon that can each be loaded with several molecules of anticancer drugs like Taxol®. ...