Realize molecular surgical knife in tumor therapy by nanotechnology

In cancer therapy, the main challenge is how to attack the tumor and avoid injuring any normal organs in the meantime. In the last decades, scientists have made great efforts to try targeting the tumors, but little progress is achieved because all of the known therapeutic techniques could not latch the tumor cells down and always bring tremendous harms to normal cells or organs. The recent research by Professor Chunru Wang and his colleagues from Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences reported a novel strategy for tumor therapy that aims at the tumor blood vessels and can precisely destroy them, shedding light on tumor-targeting therapy by the advanced nanotechnology.