Nanomedicine has the potential to help personalize cancer treatments and reduce side effects of therapeutic drugs. While some progress has been made toward the latter goal, customized treatments are still hard to come by. ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 26, 2016
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Antimatter was one of the most exciting physics discoveries of the 20th century. Picked up by fiction writers such as Dan Brown, many people think of it as an "out there" theoretical idea – unaware that it is actually being ...
General Physics
Jan 26, 2016
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A*STAR researchers have developed the first selective probe for a marker of the stage before the brain plaques which characterize Alzheimer's disease are formed.
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 20, 2016
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An approach to converting the data from MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) machines, mammograms and other medical equipment gives doctors a much clearer picture of your insides and a chance to detect disease and other problems ...
Engineering
Sep 11, 2015
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A*STAR researchers have developed a hybrid metal–polymer nanoparticle that lights up in the acidic environment surrounding tumor cells. Nonspecific probes that can identify any kind of tumor are extremely useful for monitoring ...
Bio & Medicine
Nov 19, 2014
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Trace metals in living organisms play a variety of important roles in many processes, including gene expression and the development of diseases such as cancer. It is possible to image the behavior of these 'bio-metals' by ...
Astronomy
Jul 25, 2013
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Metal elements and molecules interact in the body but visualizing them together has always been a challenge. Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies have developed a new molecular imaging technology ...
Analytical Chemistry
May 2, 2013
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2008, a team of investigators at Stanford University's Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence demonstrated that they could use a technique known as nanoparticle-aided Raman spectroscopy to look at ...
Bio & Medicine
Jun 28, 2011
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Scandium-44 is a promising medical isotope for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. PET allows doctors to measure the activity of the cells in the body to help identify cancer, heart disease, and other conditions. ...
Materials Science
Aug 3, 2023
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Positron emission tomography (PET) is an important tool for studying the animal model of human diseases and the development of new drugs and new therapies.
Veterinary medicine
Oct 19, 2020
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