Using Magenetic Nanoparticles to Combat Cancer

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 - 08:28 in Health & Medicine

Scientists at Georgia Tech have developed a potential new treatment against cancer that attaches magnetic nanoparticles to cancer cells, allowing them to be captured and carried out of the body. The treatment, which has been tested in the laboratory and will now be looked at in survival studies, is detailed online in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

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