| Title: |
Increasing Radiosensitivity of Cervical Cancer with Titanium Nanoparticle Clusters |
| Description: |
Cervical cancer is resistant to many forms of therapy, including radiation, making it a virtually incurable tumor. Researchers at the Northwestern University Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence have developed core-shell-peptide nanoparticles capable of entering a cancer cell’s cytoplasm and nucleus and making these cells much more sensitive to radiation therapy. This image is a still shot reconstructed from X-ray fluorescence tomographic images of one human cervical cancer cell’s nucleus (gold color), with titanium nanoparticle clusters (green) in the cell cytoplasm and nucleus.
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| Topics/Categories: |
Science and Technology -- Nanotechnology |
| Type: |
Color, Photo (JPEG format) |
| Source: |
National Cancer Institute |
| Creator: |
Si Chen Ph.D., William Liu M.S., Tatjana Paunesku Ph.D., Stefan Vogt Ph.D., Gayle E. Woloschak Ph.D., and Ye Yuan Ph.D. |
| Date Created: |
June 1, 2014 |
| Date Added: |
July 21, 2016 |
| Reuse Restrictions: |
None - This image is in the public domain and can be freely reused. Please credit the source and, where possible, the creator listed above.
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