POSTS TAGGED AS cancer

Implantable Pump for Brain Tumors

Implantable pump drip-feeds chemotherapy directly into brain tumors
“Researchers at Columbia University and New York Presbyterian have developed an implantable pump [MORE]

Detecting Brain Tumors in a Drop of Blood

Surveillance of Brain Cancer Using Self-Functionalized 3D Nanoprobes for Noninvasive Liquid Biopsy
“We [at Toronto Metropolitan University] hypothesize that holistic analysis [MORE]

Surgical Dressing Promotes Regeneration without Cancer

Surgical dressing kills cancer cells, promotes healing
“A surgical dressing synthesized by an international research team enhances photothermal therapy following melanoma [MORE]

Altering Gene Expression with Gold Nanorods and an NIR Laser

Altering Gene Expression with Gold Nanorods and an NIR Laser
Japanese scientists have used lipid coated gold nanorods to deliver a [MORE]

Liquid Biopsy for Monitoring Treatment Response

Liquid biopsies to monitor and direct treatment of colorectal cancer
Most interest in liquid biopsies has focused on less invasive disease [MORE]

A Synthetic IL-9 vs. Radiation and Chemo

Killer T Cells surround a cancer cell
Collaborative work at several labs has “shown that a synthetic IL-9 receptor allows those [MORE]

“Moly cow” Radiology

New production method promises to end medical radioisotope shortages
From the University of Tokyo:  “One of the most promising alternatives is [MORE]

Histotripsy: Ultrasound Ablation of Liver Tumors

The 700kHz, 260-element histotripsy ultrasound array transducer
“Histotripsy is the first non-ionizing and non-thermal ablation technique that uses ultrasound technology to [MORE]

Hand-Held High Resolution Imaging Device for Diagnosing Skin Cancer

Hand-Held High Resolution Imaging Device for Diagnosing Skin Cancer
“High-resolution millimeter-wave imaging (HR-MMWI), with its high discrimination contrast and sufficient penetration [MORE]

Swept Confocally Aligned Planar Excitation Microscopy

New High-Speed 3D Microscope—SCAPE
“[Columbia University] Researchers have developed a technology that could replace conventional biopsies and histology with real-time imaging [MORE]

Computational Mapping of Single Cells in Tissue

Spatial analysis from Navin Laboratory
“A new computational approach developed by researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center [MORE]

Novel Immunotherapy Delivery System

Cell-Loaded Beads Release Cytokines to Eradicate Tumors
“Researchers at Rice University have created a cytokine delivery system that can produce localized [MORE]

 Photothermal and Photodynamic Therapy for Cancer, a Review

Photothermal and Photodynamic Therapy for Cancer
“The present review focuses on the therapeutic potency of PDT [photodynamic therapy], PTT (photothermal therapy], [MORE]

Brief History of Humanized Mice

Creating Genetically Humanized Mice
“Historically, genetic humanization of model organisms was achieved through one of two methods: random insertion transgenic humanization [MORE]