Saturday, 16 November 2013

Bundled RNA Balls Attack Brain Tumors


Bundled RNA Balls Attack Brain Tumors
Spherical nucleic acids, or SNAs, are balls of RNA with a gold nanoparticle core that can slip into brain tumors and block cancer gene expression, reports a new study in mice. The technology may be an effective treatment for glioblastoma, a deadly form of brain cancer.

This video shows a 3D reconstruction of magnetic resonance images after intracranial injection of Gd(III)-functionalized spherical nucleic acids.

Read more about this research from the 30 October issue of Science Translational Medicine here:
http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/5/209/209ra152

Video credit: Alex Waters and Matt McCory / Northwestern University
Thanks Chad Haney

9 comments:

  1. Its all going to nano particles..very interesting..

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  2. This work was done in the facility that I manage. Let me try to find more details.

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  3. Our visualization guys made this video and are not getting any credit.

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  4. Perhaps Science Translational Medicine forgot to mention it..or made a mistake.
    So video credit goes to...?

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  5. No the authors likely didn't know who made it and didn't bother to find out. There's a generic acknowledgement to the facility I run but not the actual people. Alex Waters and Matt McCory made this video possible.
    http://cami.northwestern.edu/

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  6. Hello Corina Hope You Are Fine and Congrats for your Future Baby all the Best Paulo Gonçalves

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  7. Paulo Gonçalves thanks, but there's no future baby for now, just a simple desire =)

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