News tagged with detect cancer
MIT student develops new innovations to selectively kill cancer cells
When it comes to solving complex problems, Geoffrey von Maltzahn, MIT graduate student and biomedical engineer, looks to nature for solutions. Finding inspiration in systems that evolution has produced, von ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 03, 2009 |
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Biological computer destroys cancer cells
Researchers led by ETH professor Yaakov Benenson and MIT professor Ron Weiss have successfully incorporated a diagnostic biological "computer" network in human cells. This network recognizes certain cancer ...
Sep 01, 2011 |
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Scientists developing cancer breath test
Scientists working on a breath test to detect cancer said they were now able to identify different types of the disease, in research published Wednesday.
Aug 11, 2010 |
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A real-time diagnosis for a treatable cancer
According to the American Cancer Society, colorectal cancer, America's third leading type of cancer, is also one of the most preventable. One-third of all colorectal cancer deaths could be avoided by simple ...
Jun 09, 2009 |
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Nanoparticles cross blood-brain barrier to enable 'brain tumor painting'
Brain cancer is among the deadliest of cancers. It's also one of the hardest to treat. Imaging results are often imprecise because brain cancers are extremely invasive. Surgeons must saw through the skull ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Aug 03, 2009 |
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Magnetic nanotags spot cancer in mice earlier than methods now in clinical use
Searching for biomarkers that can warn of diseases such as cancer while they are still in their earliest stage is likely to become far easier thanks to an innovative biosensor chip developed by Stanford University ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 13, 2009 |
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New nanoparticle could improve cancer detection, drug delivery
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Florida scientists have developed a new nanoparticle that could improve cancer detection and drug delivery. The particle, called a 'micelle' and made up of a cluster of molecules called aptamers, ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 12, 2010 |
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Researchers show potential for new cancer detection and therapy method
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 th ...
Apr 22, 2010 |
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'Chemical Nose' to Sniff Out Cancer Earlier, Improve Treatment Options
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a "chemical nose" array of nanoparticles and polymers, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a fundamentally new, more effective way to differentiate ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jun 23, 2009 |
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Researchers advance understanding of structural change in cancer cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- A method developed by a University of Maine mathematician to get a much more detailed look at cellular morphology has the potential to aid in early cancer detection.
Oct 06, 2010 |
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Nanoscale gene 'ignition switch' may help spot and treat cancer
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a proof of principal study in mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins and the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) have shown that a set of genetic instructions encased in a nanoparticle can ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 15, 2010 |
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Early prostate cancer detection, screening: No benefit for men with low baseline PSA value
Men aged 55 to 74 years who have low baseline blood levels of prostate specific antigen (PSA) are not likely to benefit from further screening and treatment. That is the conclusion of a new study published early online in ...
Sep 13, 2010 |
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UK company to transform electronics for security scanners, cancer detection
A new UK company set to transform the use of terahertz electronics for applications in security imaging, telecommunications and cancer detection has won (Wednesday 24 November) a prize in Research Councils ...
Nov 26, 2010 |
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Turning agents of disease into tools for health and better living
Viruses that attack plants, insects, mammals and bacteria are proving effective platforms for delivering medicines and imaging chemicals to specific cells in the body, as building blocks for tiny battery electrodes and computer ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 30, 2011 |
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Light can detect pre-cancerous colon cells
After demonstrating that light accurately detected pre-cancerous cells in the lining of the esophagus, Duke University bioengineers turned their technology to the colon and have achieved similar results in a series of preliminary ...
Oct 11, 2011 |
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