Magnetically Guided Drugs Delivered Precisely to Target Location, Lund University Study

8/27/2010 7:02:56 AM

MedGadget -- Researchers at Lund University in Sweden successfully used magnets to guide fibrinolytics (clot dissolving drugs) directly to the site of a thrombus stuck within a coronary stent. They did this by attaching the drugs to magnetic nanoparticles and using external magnets to move them to the right spot.

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