Attacking cancer cells with nanoparticles
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 07:30
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- About every three days, Colleen Alexander, a chemistry graduate student, feeds cells that cause a deadly type of brain cancer. Its a ritual that involves assessing the health of the cells under a microscope, washing away dead cells with a special solution and instilling clean medium that will nurture the living cells and generate new ones. At some point, these cells will be subjected to chemotherapy agents attached to nanoparticles made of gold.
