Tag: Cancer
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Tracking radiation treatment in real time promises safer, more effective cancer therapy
The ability to accurately detect where X-rays land and in what dose could reduce the collateral damage from radiation therapy.
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Shutting down backup genes leads to cancer remission, in mice
Cancer cells delete DNA when they go to the dark side, so a team of doctors and engineers targeted the “backup plans” running critical cell functions.
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Method of Immunomodulation at Biomaterial Scaffolds Can Help Detect Early Pancreatic Cancer
Many new technologies and techniques, such as the one applied in this study, aim to make early detection screenings more widely available and more likely to improve therapeutic benefit.
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Prof. Zhen Xu Receives Lockhart Memorial Prize from Focused Ultrasound Foundation
The $75,000 annual prize is awarded to an investigator to recognize outstanding contributions in advancing cancer treatment using focused ultrasound and the potential for continued achievements in the field.
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Implantable cancer traps could provide earlier diagnosis and help monitor treatment
Synthetic scaffolding could detect multiple types of cancers before they start to spread.
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Cancer is smarter than you think: Q&A with Geeta Mehta
Decoding the sophisticated inner workings of cancer may help us fight it.
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Reading cancer’s chemical clues
A nanoparticle-assisted optical imaging technique could one day read the chemical makeup of a tumor.
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‘Sister cell’ profiling aims to shut down cancer metastasis
Michigan engineers release individual cells from a specially-designed chip using laser pulses.
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Cancer decoy could capture malignant cells and warn of relapse
A small, implantable device that researchers are calling a cancer “super-attractor” could eventually give doctors an early warning