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.