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Injectable Implant Monitors Chemical Changes of Tumors
Physicians may have a variety of tools in their arsenal to fight cancer, but quickly determining whether one or another method is actually working for a given patient is a major challenge today....
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Electronic Nose Sniffs Out Ovarian Cancer in Exhaled Breath
We know that exhaled breath contains biomarkers that point to presence of existing disease, including cancer, but their detection is challenging without bulky and expensive equipment. Building...
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‘Smart biogel’ that kills cancer tumors in development
A new study describes how scientists are developing an intelligent biogel that delivers anti-cancer agents directly into tumors. Lab tests show the biogel performs well against tumor cells. If the same...
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Liquid Metal Helps Spot and Kill Tumor Cells
Liquid metal is best known for its role in Terminator movies, but the material may serve an important role in targeted drug delivery for fighting cancer. Researchers at North Carolina State University...
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‘Suicide’ gene therapy kills prostate cancer cells
A new gene therapy technique is able to modify prostate cancer cells so that a patient’s body attacks and kills them, US scientists have discovered. The technique causes the tumour cells in the body to...
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Virus Shell Nanoparticles Vaccinate Cancers in Mice
The magazine Science hailed cancer immunotherapy as the breakthrough of the year two years ago, and the field has been gaining traction since. The idea is to activate the body’s own immune cells to...
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Chemo Patch to Treat Pancreatic Cancer With Fewer Side Effects
Chemotherapy is typically delivered by IV injection, leading to large amount of the poison reaching the healthy body while tumors don’t get a sufficient dose. Chemotherapy of the pancreas is...
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NYU Langone Medical Center’s 3D printing technology helps Manhattan woman...
When Sara Morales found out two years ago that she had a rare bone cancer, it felt like the cruelest kind of déjà vu. The 34-year-old Lower East Side resident was at the time still doing rehab on her...
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12 Startups Fighting Cancer With Artificial Intelligence
As the global population ages, the number of cancer cases is going up. New cancer diagnoses are expected to rise by 70% in the next 2 decades, from 14 million to around 22 million, according to an...
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Saving Jojo’s Leg with Pre-Surgical Planning in 3D
A five-year-old boy named Jojo from a village near Munich was diagnosed with a rare malignant tumor called Ewing`s Sarcoma. Usually found in the diaphysis (middle part) of long bones Jojo`s tumor was...
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Perfect-fit prostheses delivered on time
Bone cancer often means amputation for patients. If they are lucky, surgeons can remove the tumour and insert a prosthesis into the cavity that contained the bone. But the prosthesis may not fit...
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This is how AppliedVR is easing cancer patients’ anxiety
Matthew Stoudt’s background isn’t in healthcare. He previously served as CEO of Outcast Media, a digital media company. After selling the company in 2014, Stoudt “had to go on a bit of a vision quest...
View Article3D-printed prosthetics opens new door for reconstructing bone defects
Scientists in China evaluated the effectiveness of 3D-printed prosthetics as a custom knee-joint replacement prosthesis. Bone tumors develop when cells in the bone divide without control, forming a...
View ArticleNYSCF Researchers Develop Novel Bioengineering Technique for Personalized...
Scientists from the New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Research Institute have developed a new bone engineering technique called Segmental Additive Tissue Engineering (SATE). The technique,...
View Article3D Printing Helps a Five-Year-Old Girl to Dance Again
Five-year-old Daria loves dancing, but that was imperiled when she was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma, a rare malignant bone tumor, in her right leg. The tumor was large, extending almost to her distal...
View Article3-D Technology Reduces Lead Times, Enables Customization
With the latest technological advancements in 3-D printing, highly complex bone reconstruction is now a reality. Orthopedic specialists for years have been developing the technology to model and then...
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