KILLING OF SELECTED CELLS

摘要

The present invention relates to the field of targeted killing of cells appearing in a mixed population of cells. In particular, the present invention relates to targeted and selective killing of transplanted cells in vivo or of feeder/co-culture cells in cell culture systems in vitro. By use of nanotechnology this invention provide a new means of labelling cells in such a way that they may be selectively killed or inactivated when they are in admixture with cells it is intended not to kill. More precisely, the present invention describes ways for labelling cells with nanostructures that are designed to be capable of exerting a lethal or inactivating or inactivating influence on a cell - this allows for subsequent specific inactivation or killing of the labelled cells by use of convenient, non-invasive signalling technologies.