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Nanoparticles Make Cancer Cells Visible Wouldn`t it be nice if we could detect tumors and their metastases as easily as we find broken bones with X-rays? A team of scientists headed by S. Bhatia in Boston has been working on this problem. They have found a way to make a tumor-specific protease visible by using Fe3 O4 nanoparticles and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
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