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Policy Analysis: Investment, IP, Life Sciences, Nanotech
Published: 22 March 2012
ACES winner shows how magnetic particles can fight cancer

Nuala Moran, Science|Business

In one of the first clinical applications of magnetic nanoparticles to reach the market, Endomagnetics has developed a technology that offers a safer, cheaper way to detect whether breast tumours have spread


Image: Endomagnetics

A childhood fascination with magnetism is about to translate into a significant advance in the treatment of breast cancer, which will at the same time improve safety and reduce costs.

“As a child, playing with iron filings, I was enthralled to be able move them around with a magnet without touching them,” Quentin Pankhurst, professor of physics at University College London, recalls. Many years and a few detours later, he has turned his fascination with magnetism into...

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Related subjects: ACES, Breast cancer, Cancer, Detection, Nanoparticles, Radioisotopes, breast tumours, Endomagnetics

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