MU researchers show potential for new cancer detection and therapy method
Saturday, April 24, 2010 - 05:40
in Health & Medicine
University of Missouri School of Medicine scientists explain a potentially new early cancer detection and treatment method using nanoparticles created at MU in an article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The article illustrates how engineered gold nanoparticles tied to a cancer-specific receptor could be targeted to tumour cells to treat prostate, breast or lung cancers in humans...