Device for Treating Skin Tumors
June 27, 2017 | Terry Sharrer
This piece leaves out two critical pieces of information: what kind of skin tumors are being treated with heat producing lasers, and how are gold nanoparticles dispersed sufficiently in the tumor to be heat generators? But this piece reports that Spanish researchers have used gold nanoparticles imbedded in skin tumors which are then headed with an infrared laser, thereby ablating the tumors. MORE
Image Credit: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid