Fluorescent probes may permit monitoring of chemotherapy effectiveness
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 10:42
in Health & Medicine
Going out like a brilliant flame is one way to get attention. If physicians could watch tumour cells committing a form of programmed suicide called apoptosis, a desired effect of workhorse cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy, they could more quickly pick the most effective treatment. Now scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found a way to do just that, by lighting up cells as they die...