Magnets Capture Cancer Cells

July 28, 2008 | Source: Technology Review

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

Nanoparticles (red) on cancer cell

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