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Researcher Develops What May Become a Cancer 'Nanobomb' |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / IMPACTS |
| Author: Neil Thomas |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2006 |
| Size: 1,062 Words, 7,111 Characters |
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University of Delaware researchers are opening a new front in the war on cancer, bringing to bear new nanotechnologies for cancer detection and treatment and introducing a unique nanobomb that can literally blow up breast cancer tumors.
Balaji Panchapakesan, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at UD, has recently reported on the discoveries in the journals NanoBiotechnology and Oncology Issues. He is the lead investigator for a team that includes Eric Wickstrom, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, and his student Greg Cesarone, and UD graduate students Shaoxin Lu, Kousik Sivakumar, and postdoctoral researcher Kasif Teker.
Panchapakesan said this is basic research in the very early stages...
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...irected Medical Research Program.
Panchapakesan received his bachelor's degree in materials engineering at Regional Engineering College in India and doctorate in mechanical engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park in 2001 before joining the faculty at UD. His work is in the area of micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS), nanotechnology, and biomedical research.
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