Succeeded to bring anticancer drug to sperm to cancer tumor

byQuinn Dombrowski

Haifeng Xu et al. Of Leibniz Solid / Materials Research Laboratories are conducting research on a method of inducing sperm to cancer tumor and carrying drugs as one of the new methods of cancer treatment. With this method it is thought that treatment can be done without limiting the dose of medication.

Sperm-Hybrid Micromotor for Targeted Drug Delivery - ACS Nano (ACS Publications)
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.7b06398


Hijacked sperm carry chemo drugs to cervical cancer cells | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2156525-hijacked-sperm-carry-chemo-drugs-to-cervical-cancer-cells/

You can check how sperm is induced from published videos.

Sperm used to deliver chemo drugs to tumours - YouTube


This image captured the "sperm bot" heading to cervical cancer tumor on a petri dish. Sperm bot is a small magnetic harness attached to sperm and anticancer drug is given to sperm.


Induction of the sperm bot is done by magnetic force. When reaching the tumor, the harness comes off and the sperm rushes into the tumor.


In this method, 87% of cancer cells died in 3 days, while side effects such as fatigue and nausea did not occur when chemotherapy was performed. According to Haifeng Xu et al., There is a possibility that it can be used for treatment of endometriosis and extrauterine pregnancy, in addition to cancer.