News tagged with heat therapy

Heat therapy could be new treatment for parasitic skin disease

Scientists are hoping that heat therapy could eventually replace a complex drug regimen as the first-line treatment of a parasitic skin infection common in tropical and subtropical regions of the world.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

How many nanoparticles heat the tumor?

Those who have to fight a powerful enemy must look for allies. This is why physicists from different scientific fields have decided to cooperate with biomedical physicians in order to place the fight against cancer through ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Aug 09, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Targeted heat therapy offers new standard treatment option for soft tissue sarcoma

Patients with soft-tissue sarcomas at high risk of spreading were 30% more likely to be alive and cancer free almost three years after starting treatment if their tumours were heated at the time they received chemotherapy, ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1




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Locked down, RNA editing yields odd fly behavior

Because a function of RNA is to be translated as the genetic instructions for the protein-making machinery of cells, RNA editing is the body's way of fine-tuning the proteins it produces, allowing us to adapt. The enzyme ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Nanobubbles' plus chemotherapy equals single-cell cancer targeting

Using light-harvesting nanoparticles to convert laser energy into "plasmonic nanobubbles," researchers at Rice University, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Using radio waves to bake tumors

(Phys.org) -- Nanothermal therapy – the use of nanoparticles to cook a tumor to death – is one of the many promising uses of nanotechnology to both improve the effectiveness of cancer therapy and reduce its side ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New insights into ancient life: Chromosome segregation in Archaea

(PhysOrg.com) -- The effort to classify life into various groups has been a bumpy ride. Prior to the 1900s, living things were usually pegged as either plants or animals – period. By the middle of the ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Researchers uncover molecular pathway through which common yeast becomes fungal pathogen

Scientists at the University of Toronto have found a molecular mechanism that plays a key role in the transition of Candida albicans yeast into disease-causing fungus—one of the leading causes of hospital-acquired infect ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study magnetizes carbon nanoparticles for cancer therapy

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of University of Texas at Arlington researchers have developed a method that uses magnetic carbon nanoparticles to target and destroy cancer cells through laser therapy - a treatment ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Nanotube therapy takes aim at breast cancer stem cells

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center researchers have again proven that injecting multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) into tumors and heating them with a quick, 30-second laser treatment can kill them.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Marriage therapist says high-conflict couples have work to do before saying 'I do'

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Kansas State University marriage therapist has Valentine's Day advice for couples contemplating commitments and engagement rings: Mix romance with a generous portion of reality.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Plasmonic nanocrosses that heat up when illuminated can be used to kill cancer

Plasmonic nanoparticles are extremely sensitive to light, and even the tiniest amount can cause these particles to heat up. Scientists are now trying to use plasmonic nanoparticles in cancer therapy whereby ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Laser heating -- new light cast on electrons heated to several billion degrees

A new class of high power lasers can effectively accelerate particles like electrons and ions with very intense, short laser pulses. This has attracted the interest of researchers around the globe, working ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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