Professor Sylvain Martel, Director of the Nanorobotics Laboratory at Polytechnique Montréal was known for being the world's first researcher to have guided a magnetic sphere through a living artery. Professor Martel is now adding to his achievement. Professor Martel is announcing a new breakthrough in the field of nanomedicine. By utilizing a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, his team successfully guided microcarriers loaded with a dose of anti-cancer drug through the bloodstream of a living rabbit, right up to a targeted area in the liver. The drug was successfully administered.
"This is a medical first that will help improve chemoembolization, a current treatment for liver cancer."
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110316084417.htm
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