New approach of cancer found by American teen? Article posted 19 January 2012
19 January 2012: source: Algemeen Dagblad thanks to Yuri
In America has a whole young scientist (17 years) for sensational news. The girl, Angela Zhang, himself has developed a molecule and in combination with a technique of nanoparticles and infrared radiation laboratory studies could be killed without tumors in omliggens tissue was affected. The damper on this post is the comment of her professor who mentored her for years that it certainly still 15 years will last, if this approach would be successful in humans, for there may be a successful treatment method for large groups of cancer patients. And that's always the problem with new natuurljk ointdekkingen, there should be many studies to be done.
Here the online press release from the AD, which a larger article in the newspaper itself is, I understand:
Professor (17) discovered cure against cancer cells
The 17-year-old Angela Zhang from Cupertino, California may have developed a medicine against cancer. Kavita Gupta her science teacher with her pet can not. ' We are talking about a high school student, huh?! '
On her fifteenth began Angela ' for fun ' books on biotechnology to read. Within the shortest times las bolleboosje the heavy, scientific work. And that has had his result. That reports the AD today.
Molecule
The originally Chinese Angela developed a molecule that she describes as ' the Swiss army knife under the cancer drugs '. It can detect cancer cells, wiping and response to handling monitors. It is a molecule that is in the body of a cancer patient attaches itself to small nanoparticles. Then, the nanoparticles paste stuck to a cancer cell. This allows doctors via an MRI scan see exactly where the cancer cells are located.
Then by an infrared beam to focus on the tumour, melting the molecule comes and medication free. That destroys than purely the malignant cells and leave the healthy cells alone. Angela has the technique on mice tested in a laboratory of the neighboring Stanford University. The result is astonishing: the cancer growths disappeared like snow in the Sun.
' Promising '
' The work of Angela is anyway exceptionally and miraculously, ' says Dr. Zhen Cheng of Stanford University. He is already a few years the mentor of the professor. ' It is too early to say that this is also for people going to work and whether it will be a successful drug. In any case, it looks promising. Fifteen years or more we know. ' That time will be needed to develop the technique by.
