Fighting Cancer Gets Personal

Cancer-fighting fountain pen gets the job done with nanodiamonds

The probe could be used both as a research tool in the development of next-generation cancer treatments and as a nanomanufacturing tool to build the implantable drug delivery devices that will apply these treatments. The potential of nanomaterials to revolutionize drug delivery is emergent in early trials, which show their ability to moderate the release of highly toxic chemotherapy drugs and o...

The genome gets personal--almost.

IT’S THE“YEAR OFPERFECTVISION,”2020.AMY,AGE21YEARS, visits with her physician and elects to have complete genome sequencing. At a follow-up visit, Amy chooses to learn of her genetic risk factors for heart disease, diabetes, breast cancer, and colon cancer. Amy’s physician provides her with risk scores for those disorders, and with suggestions for lifestyle modifications. Specifically, Amy is a...

The Perception Factor: Climate Change Gets Personal

Fighting cancer with virus

One of the most promising strategies to treat cancer is attacking it with viruses. Virus can kill tumor cells specifically or act as carriers that deliver normal genes into cancer cells. A model for virus therapy of cancer is investigated and some of its predictions are in agreement with results obtained from experimental tumors. Furthermore, the model reveals an oscillatory (periodic or aperio...

When the Going Gets Tough: Scientists’ Personal Challenges

The high risk that we take during training, when several years of work are focused on one main project that may also not work but that is decisive for the further career, was a particular challenge to me. Due to my dual career in medicine and science and also personal life circumstances, the time I could allocate for my postdoctoral research was limited. I was very worried that my project would...