This 'steemit post' is an excerpt from the Free Bullion Investment Guide's latest 'Gold Nanoparticle Cancer Research Report' seen here.
The research article in the news report have been summarized to make the subject matter a little easier tounderstand.
Exploding Gold NanoRods Destroy Retinoblastoma
Retinoblastoma is cancer of the retina, which is a is a thin membrane that lines the inside of the back of the eye.
Although this terrible form of cancer is rare, sadly, it specifically only affects children under the age of five.
To date, the primary goal of treatment has been to save the child's life, however, not so much of that care is centered around also saving the child's eyesight.
But, now a group of researchers out of Canada have developed a way to save the child's life and his or her eyesight with the help of lasers and gold nanorods.
In this study, gold nanorods were coated with a thin molecule that helped them find the cancer cells inside the eye.
Once the gold nanorods collected in and around the cancer cells a femtosecond pulse laser was directed onto them which made them heat up and explode.
A femtosecond pulse laser emits optical pulses with a duration of one quadrillionth of a second (1/1,000,000,000,000,000).
The tiny explosions only killed the cancer cells and did not harm any healthy tissues surrounding the cancer cells.
Furthermore, after a single treatment, the research team found that the cancer cells ability to survive dropped by 90%.
The researchers of this study did their experiments in a controlled environment outside of the body (in vitro), more research must be done in a living specimen (in vivo) to understand its viability.
Read the full article about this groundbreaking research for a Rare Form of Childhood Cancer here: Lasering in on Retinoblastoma - *Advanced Science News
See the guide's full blog post here >>> Gold Nanoparticle Cancer Research Report #8.
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