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Targeting tumors using silver nanoparticles
Posted in Science on 19th Jun, 2014
by Alex Muller
Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have designed a silver spherical nanoparticle encased in a shell coated with a peptide that enables it to target tumor cells.
Miniature artificial lung could revolutionize cancer research
Posted in Medicine on 5th Jun, 2014
by Alex Muller
The 3D-Lung tumor model helps researchers to test medications.
Herpes-loaded stem cells used to kill brain tumors
Posted in Medicine on 18th May, 2014
by Alex Muller
Harvard Stem Cell Institute scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital have a potential solution for how to more effectively kill tumor cells using cancer-killing viruses.
Womans cancer killed by measles virus in unprecedented trial
Posted in Medicine on 16th May, 2014
by Alex Muller
Over the next several weeks, the tumor on her forehead disappeared completely and, over time, the other tumors in her body did, too.
Half of cancer sufferers 'live a decade or more'
Posted in Medicine on 29th Apr, 2014
by Alex Muller
Half of people in England and Wales now being diagnosed with cancer will survive at least a decade - double the rate in the early 1970s, figures show.