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Article: Nanoparticles that enhance detection capabilities of CT scans, MRIs developed
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- The Hindustan Times
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- April 11, 2007
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Washington, April 11 -- A Princeton University-led research team has created particles that can deliver medicine deep into the lungs or infiltrate cancer cells while leaving normal ones alone.
Only 100 to 300 nanometers wide - more than 100 times thinner than a human hair - the particles can be loaded with medicines or imaging agents, like gold and magnetite, that will enhance the detection capabilities of CT scans and MRIs.
"The intersection of materials science and chemistry is allowing advances that were never before possible. No one had a good route to incorporate drugs and imaging agents in nanoparticles," ...