Magnetic nanoparticles may reveal early traces of cancer
Friday, April 29, 2016 - 07:40
in Physics & Chemistry
Nanoscale magnets offer a new way to find faint, early traces of cancer in patients, according to Rice University students working on a method to capitalize on the magnets' properties. Three Rice computational and applied mathematics students are refining a program to analyze magnetic relaxometry signals from iron-oxide nanoparticles that find and attach themselves to cancerous cells.