News tagged with tumor detection

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

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 5

First acoustic metamaterial 'superlens' created

A team of researchers at the University of Illinois has created the world's first acoustic "superlens," an innovation that could have practical implications for high-resolution ultrasound imaging, non-destructive ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (13) | comments 6

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

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 0

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

created Feb 12, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast