Aminocyanine molecules are already used in bioimaging as synthetic dyes. Commonly used in low doses to detect cancer, they stay stable in water and are very good at attaching themselves to the outside of cells.
Not sure if just attached to cancer cells or other cells too.
Cancer cells divide faster than other cells, meaning they have some structural differences. Most drugs (not sure about this one) exploit this difference.
i asked this in another thread, how do they get the novel molecule to attach to only cancer cells. apparently they havent gotten that far yet.
All I found was this from the article
Not sure if just attached to cancer cells or other cells too.
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Cancer cells divide faster than other cells, meaning they have some structural differences. Most drugs (not sure about this one) exploit this difference.