Tracking new cancer-killing particles with MRI

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 - 09:42 in Physics & Chemistry

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. The all-in-one particle is one of the first examples from a growing field called 'theranostics' that develops technologies physicians can use to diagnose and treat diseases in a single procedure...

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