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  "id": 18004314,
  "title": "Iridium catalyst activates chemotherapy drug directly at targeted cancer cells",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/iridium-catalyst-activates-chemotherapy-drug-directly-at-targeted",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-11-03T18:20:16.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-iridium-catalyst-chemotherapy-drug-cancer.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Conventional chemotherapy treatments often attack not only cancer cells but also healthy tissue, leading to severe side effects such as hair loss or nausea. The team led by Dr. Thomas Ward from the Department of Chemistry and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute (SNI) at the University of Basel is therefore pursuing an approach that uses artificial metal compounds as catalysts that specifically bind…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}