Artificial virus could deliver drugs

By mimicking how a natural virus works, researchers at the CNRS and the University of Strasbourg in France have made a “chemical virus” that can cross the fatty plasma membrane barrier of a biological cell. Once inside the cell, the virus can release its molecular payload – in this case a protein called caspase 3 that can destroy certain cancers………

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/62540