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Atlanta, GA | Posted: February 2, 2010
Summary Sentence:
Ovarian Cancer Institute Research Published in Nanoparticle
Full Summary:
In what may well prove to be some of the most exciting health news in the year to come, scientists in Georgia Tech's Ovarian Cancer Institute announced that it has replicated a 2008 animal study now on human cancer cells, with the nanoparticles appearing to be every bit as effective.
Magnetic Nanoparticles Attach to Human Cancer CellMagnetic nanoparticles target human cancer cells
CNET - February 2, 2010
In 2008, scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Ovarian Cancer Institute developed a potential treatment to fight cancer using magnetic nanoparticles designed to attach themselves to cancer cells. They found in their groundbreaking tests on mice that the particles not only attached to cancer cells, but they also moved those cells. In what may well prove to be some of the most exciting health news in the year to come, the group announced in the journal Nanomedicine in December and further publicized on Tuesday that it has replicated the study on human cancer cells, with the nanoparticles appearing to be every bit as effective.
