Imagine a microscopic gold pill that could travel to a specific location in your body and deliver a drug just where it is needed. This is the promise of plasmonic nanovesicles. These minute capsules can navigate the bloodstream, and, when hit with a quick pulse of laser light, change shape to release their contents. It…
Mining Cancer Data for Treatment Clues
There is an enormous amount that we do not understand about the fundamental causes and behavior of cancer cells, but at some level, experts believe that cancer must relate to DNA and the genome. In their seminal 2011 paper, “The Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation,” biologists Douglas Hanahan and Robert Weinberg identified six hallmarks,…