Experimental chemotherapy uses stealth tactic to activate inside cancer cells

Chemotherapy faces a fundamental problem: The same drugs powerful enough to kill cancer cells can also damage healthy tissue. UC Irvine researchers are trying to change that equation by putting a safety lock on a highly potent cancer drug—a lock designed to be removed once the drug enters cancer cells with high levels of a specific protein-destroying activity.

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