Fluorescent Probes May Permit Monitoring Of Chemotherapy Effectiveness

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 13:28 in Health & Medicine

Going out like a brilliant flame is one way to get attention. If physicians could watch tumor 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 have found a way to do just that, by lighting up cells as they die.

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