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Engineers Develop A.I. System to Detect Often-Missed Cancer Tumors

Posted by Age of Robots | Sep 14, 2018 | AI |

A team at UCF’s Center for Research in Computer Vision have created an system that can detect trace amounts of lung cancer with 95 percent accuracy.

Magnetic nanoparticles deliver chemotherapy to difficult-to-reach spinal tumors

Posted by Age of Robots | Aug 29, 2018 | Nanotechnology |

Researchers have demonstrated that magnetic nanoparticles can be used to ferry chemotherapy drugs into the spinal cord to treat hard-to-reach spinal tumors in an animal model. The unique delivery system represents a novel way to target chemotherapy drugs to spinal cancer cells, which are hard to reach because the drugs must cross the blood-brain barrier.

Inexpensive detector is like ‘Velcro®’ for cancer cells

Posted by Age of Robots | Jun 24, 2018 | Biotechnology |

Researchers have developed a new type of sensor that acts like Velcro® for prostate cancer cells, sticking them to a modified frosted glass slide, like those used in science classes, so that they can be identified from blood samples.