Chemotherapy impacts healthy cells along with cancerous ones. However, scientists believe that nanoscale particles could offer a solution.

Researchers are exploring the ability of gold nanoparticles (yellow dots) to transport medications into the body.(Image credit: Veronika Sapozhnikova, Konstantin Sokolov, Rebecca Richards-Kortum Anderson Cancer Center and Rice University via NIH/Flickr) When the earliest cells emerged on Earth roughly 3.8…





