Northwestern Nanodiamonds Kill the Cancer Left Behind
Scientists at Northwestern University develop a nanodevice that delivers drugs to residual cancer cells left in the body after tumor surgery.
click here to read full article...Waukesha Memorial Hospital Webcasts Brain Cancer Panel
Are you interested in learning more about brain cancer treatments? On Wednesday, October 8, 2008, ORlive will webcast a panel of physicians discussing the case of a brain tumor patient treated with CyberKnife® technology.
click here to read full article...Berkeley Microarray Makes Cancer Diagnosis Less Costly
Scientists at DOE’s Berkeley National Lab develop a new way to screen DNA and RNA. Their technique could make cancer testing and research faster AND cheaper.
click here to read full article...Neighborhood Correlation IDs Ancestry of Cancer Proteins
Computational biologists at Carnegie Mellon University come up with a new way to unravel the complex family history of proteins that play a key role in cancer.
click here to read full article...European Partnership Pursues Pocket-Sized Lasers
18 institutions across Europe are teaming up to create pocket-size, energy-efficient lasers. The 4-year project could make cancer care more accessible.
click here to read full article...Korea Unveils Clones of Cancer-Detecting Dog
A major university and a biotech company in Korea collaborate to create four adorable puppies, clones of a black labrador prized for her ability to detect cancer.
click here to read full article...MIT: Striped Nanoparticles Can Deliver Drugs Inside Cells
MIT creates striped nanoparticles that can deliver cargo inside a cell’s cytosol without killing it — big news for those developing targeted cancer treatments.
click here to read full article...Siteman Cancer Center Offers Free Podcasts on iTunes
One of the top cancer centers in the US is using Apple technology to share cancer research news with the public. The best part: you can listen to it free!
click here to read full article...a/LCI Lets Scientists See Real-Time Changes in Nucleus
Engineers develop a technique for viewing changes in a cell’s nucleus as they occur — a discovery that could speed research into cancer and other diseases.
click here to read full article...Laser Saves Voice Quality of Vocal Cord Cancer Patients
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) are using precision lasers to effectively treat early vocal cord cancers without reducing the patient’s voice quality.
The pulsed Potassium-Titanyl-Phosphate laser being used at MGH is an angiolytic laser that uses wavelengths of laser light to specifically target diseased cells without damaging healthy vocal cord tissue.
A team led by [...]


