Potential for new cancer detection and therapy method described

Friday, April 23, 2010 - 00:30 in Biology & Nature

Scientists have described a potentially new early cancer detection and treatment method using nanoparticles. A new paper illustrates how engineered gold nanoparticles tied to a cancer-specific receptor could be targeted to tumor cells to treat prostate, breast or lung cancers in humans.

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