Trefoil knots steer cancer drug leads in fresh direction

An image showing metal-organic trefoil knots

Source: © Ali Trabolsi/New York University Abu Dhabi

Chemists look to links and knots in the search for new cancer therapies

Researchers in the United Arab Emirates and the US have shown that metal–organic trefoil knots, a type of mechanically interlocked architecture, could form the basis of a new class of anti-cancer agents.