A 17-year-old girl, Brittany Wegner, has devised the least invasive way to assess the presence of breast cancer from tissue samples. The technique uses a cloud-based neural network (or an artificial ‘brain’) to analyze tissue samples for breast cancer. The project brought Wegner the first prize in this year’s Google Science Fair.
To fight against cancer, researchers are continuously working to find out newer ways. They are upgrading the current methods to treat cancer. Recently, researchers at the University of Tennessee’s Space Institute have developed a Femtosecond laser. Scientists are hoping to use it as a weapon against cancer.
A team of UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) engineers have developed a camera that can take photos at 36.7 million frames per second, with a shutter speed of 27 picoseconds. The team is led by associate professor Bahram Jalali and Dino Di Carlo and the researchers have claimed that the camera is the world’s fastest and most sensitive. This camera integrated with a microscope can screen 100,000 cells per second, the fastest in the world so far. It can be used to detect rare cells from “a large population of assorted cells”. It is expected that the camera will increase the ability to diagnose early-stage and pre-metastatic cancer.
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20-year old Anthony Harrison is a cancer patient. He went for a bone-marrow transplant but the operation failed and now, he has been told by the doctors that there’s not much that they can do anymore. So he has a few days, perhaps months to live and is on the verge of death. So Anthony has created a bucket list on YouTube which includes, among other things, meeting his ‘celebrity idol’ Katy Perry.
Every year, some 200,000 Americans contract prostate cancer. While if the cancer is detected in the earlier stages, it can be treated fairly effectively. However, it the diagnosis is somehow delayed, the cancer spreads to the bones and becomes immune to conventional hormonal therapies. Now, a new research has presented a drug which may be the miracle for prostate cancer.
Once upon a time people who had Cancer must die because there was no cure of it. People were very afraid of this disease. Later it’s cure and treatment released. But though advanced technology and treatment we have now, people are dying because of cancer. Scientists from Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have created a robot made which is from DNA. This robot is capable to find diseased cells in the body and deliver a payload to kill. If not possible, then it will reprogram them. Wow! We are going to have a new doctor named Dr. DNA Robot, specialized in Killing… Cancer Cell!
There is a new experimental drug being given to 19 patients with liver cancer, who haven’t responded positively to chemotherapy, and the drug has been shown to be effective by preventing the malignant tumors from making proteins they need to survive. The new drug is raising hopes that an effective treatment for cancer may at last be found.
Brain cancer is a deadly disease that has evaded an effective treatment till now. But researchers at the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy now say they…