Tracking new cancer-killing particles with MRI

Monday, December 14, 2009 - 13:22 in Physics & Chemistry

HOUSTON -- (Dec. 14, 2009) -- Researchers at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) have created a single nanoparticle that can be tracked in real time with MRI as it homes in on cancer cells, tags them with a fluorescent dye and kills them with heat. ...

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