Search Tag: cancer cells
2015 27 Mar
Results of a John Hopkins study suggest MRI could one day make biopsies more effective and even replace them altogether by noninvasively detecting tell-tale sugar molecules shed by the outer membranes of cancerous cells. The study has been published in the journal Nature Communications. According to Jeff Bulte, Ph.D., a professor of radiology...Read more
2015 16 Mar
Researchers at Vanderbilt University have achieved the first "image fusion" of mass spectrometry and microscopy. This could dramatically improve the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The paper was published in the journal Nature Methods . Microscopy yields high-resolution images of tissues but does not give molecular information. Mass spectrometry...Read more