USM working on cancer-fighting polymer

HATTIESBURG, Miss. - University of Southern Mississippi scientists are working on a technique to fight cancer that involves a polymers so tiny they can be absorbed by cancerous cells in order to stop them in their tracks. "They get the cancer cells to basically kill themselves," said Southern Miss Polymer Science Professor Charles McCormick. Aiding McCormick is an team of about 10 graduate, post-grad and undergrad polymer science students called the McCormick Research Group. The group is now working with researchers at the University of Alabama Birmingham's Comprehensive Cancer Center. They began collaborating this year. (Source: Hattiesburg American, 06/24/11)