In a major step forward for cancer treatment, researchers have developed a new type of “smart” chemical that attacks ...

Researchers developed light-activated cyanine-carborane salts that effectively target and destroy aggressive breast cancer ...

The second is a special boron-rich molecule called carborane that helps stabilize the compound and prevent it from damaging healthy cells until activated. This careful engineering resulted in a ...

The new light-sensitive chemicals called cyanine-carborane salts are used in photodynamic therapy, or PDT, to destroy metastatic breast cancer tumors in mice with minimal side effects. A wife and ...