With all the money going to researching a cure for cancer, you'd assume that if there already was, say, an inexpensive drug that has been proven effective with few-to-no side effects, right? Such a drug apparently exists--but because of its age and lack of patent, it may be being withheld from...
Scientists reveal in more detail than ever before how white blood cells kill diseased tissue using deadly granules, in research published in PLoS Biology. The researchers, from Imperial College London and the University of Oxford, used 'optical' laser tweezers and a super-resolution microscope...
Researchers at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) have created a single nanoparticle that can be tracked in real time with MRI as it homes in on cancer cells, tags them with a fluorescent dye and kills them with heat. The all-in-one particle is one of the first examples from a...