Cancer killers send signal of success
Nanoparticles deliver drug, then give real-time feedback when tumor cells die
![mouse tumor diagram](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/032816_ss_cancer-nanoparticle-NEWmain_free.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
LIVE REPORT New lab-made nanoparticles deliver cancer drugs into tumors, then report their effects in real time by lighting up in response to proteins produced by dying cells. More light (right, green) indicates a tumor is responding to chemotherapy.
A. Kulkarni et al/PNAS 2016