Nanoparticle could allow diagnosis, treatment in one visitResearchers at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) have created a single nanoparticle that can be tracked in real time with MRI as it homes in on cancer cells, tags them with a fluorescent dye and kills them with heat.
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This entry was posted on December 15, 2009 at 7:53 am and is filed under Technology.