Nanotechnology and Cancer Treatment

Nanotechnology and Cancer Treatment

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Season 1, Episode 71 , Segment 3

Grad Jobs Outlook, Sniffing Robots, Chocolate and Depression

Episode: Grad Jobs Outlook, Sniffing Robots, Chocolate and Depression

  • May 27, 2015 9:00 pm
  • 19:39 mins

Guest:  Ramazan Asmatulu, Ph. D., Mechanical Engineering Professor at Wichita State University  A cancer diagnosis is bad. The treatment is bad, too. And the after-effects of the treatment are bad. But magnetic nanoparticles have shown promise in getting chemotherapy drugs to cancer tumors in a more targeted way, so there’s less collateral damage to surrounding cells. The particles can take many shapes—but are incredibly small: 100,000 times smaller than a human hair . That’s not just invisible to the naked eye—but even to most conventional microscopes.