The magnetic nanoparticle technology used in the device was developed by Ralph Weissleder, a professor at Harvard Medical School and director of the Center for Systems Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Beyond the biopsy: A tiny monitor for cancer

29/Aug/2009

Source: The New York Times

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