s to help its delivery via the patient's water-based bloodstream.
"By encapsulating the [drug] in this layer of gel-like collagen you have a bio-compatible encapsulation methods for anticancer agents," says Middelberg.
The research is funded by the Australian Research Council and the researchers have signed a number of commercial agreements with major multinational pharmaceutical and chemical companies.
The work was presented at an American Chemical Society meeting in Boston recently.