New Imaging Technique Tracks Cancer-killing Cells Over Prolonged Period
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 08:36
in Health & Medicine
Coaxing a patient's own cells to hunt down and tackle infected or diseased cells is a promising therapeutic approach for many disorders. Now, for the first time, researchers have devised a way to obtain repeated "snapshots" of the location and survival of such cells in a living human patient months and possibly years later.