Nanomagnets fighting cancer

From KurzweilAI.net — Nanoparticle-sized magnets specially coated to “catch” ovarian cancer cells are a new cancer-fighting treatment.

 

Magnets Capture Cancer Cells

Technology Review, July 22, 2008 Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed magnetic nanoparticles (coated with a specialized targeting peptide molecule) designed to latch onto ovarian cancer cells in mice and drag them out of the abdominal fluid to prevent metastasis. Nanoparticles (red) on cancer cell See Also New Nano Weapon against Cancer   Read Original Article>>