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Cancer "monorails" can be used to kill tumours by luring them into toxic pits or areas of the body that are safer to operate on, say US researchers.
A team at the Georgia Institute of Technology designed nanofibres thinner than a human hair which cancers "choose" to travel down.
Animal studies showed brain tumours could be shrunk by tricking cancer cells into migrating down the fibres.
Cancer Research UK said it was a fascinating idea, but early days.
The team were working with difficult-to-treat brain cancers - glioblastomas, which have a tendency to spread inside the brain.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26189827
A team at the Georgia Institute of Technology designed nanofibres thinner than a human hair which cancers "choose" to travel down.
Animal studies showed brain tumours could be shrunk by tricking cancer cells into migrating down the fibres.
Cancer Research UK said it was a fascinating idea, but early days.
The team were working with difficult-to-treat brain cancers - glioblastomas, which have a tendency to spread inside the brain.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26189827