A team of researchers, led by Assistant Professor Minh Le from the Institute for Digital Medicine (WisDM) and Department of Pharmacology at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), has successfully demonstrated that nano-sized particles released by cells, such as red blood cells, could be repurposed to function as drug delivery platforms to carry antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) molecules targeting cancer cells in the lungs, thereby suppressing cancer progression. This study was conducted in collaboration with the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at NUS, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS), and Duke-NUS Medical School.

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