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Using tiny gold particles embedded with dyes, researchers have shown that they can identify tumors under the skin of a living animal. These tools may allow doctors to detect and diagnose cancer earlier and less invasively Studded with antibody...
from photonics.com - 2/13/2008 http://www.photonics.com//content/news/2008/February/13/90588.aspx PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 13, 2008 -- A new optical trick that counteracts the scattering of light through humans could one day make biological...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 12, 2008 -- An implantable thin-film system can deliver drugs to specific targets in the body by disintegrating when an electric field is applied. The film developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology serves as...
Remembering Judah Folkman Judah Folkman, MD, founder and director of the Vascular Biology program at Children's Hospital Boston, was a true visionary and scientific pioneer. When he first proposed, in the 1970s, that a cancer could be kept in...
The "h-index" was introduced in 2005 as a metric for estimating "the importance, significance and broad impact of a scientist's cumulative contributions." It takes into account both the number of an individual's publications...
Princeton University spinoff BioNanomatrix Inc. of Philadelphia today announced it has received a new $200,000 Small Technology Transfer Research (STTR) grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the US National Institutes of Health....
