Nanoparticles cause cancer cells to self-destruct

Physorg.com has exciting news from Argonne National Laboratory and The University of Chicago Brain Tumor Center:

A team of scientists, including Rozhkova, Dong-Hyum Kim, Valentyn Novosad, Tijana Rajh and Samuel Bader from Argonne, and Maciej Lesniak and Ilya Ulasov from the University of Chicago Brain Tumor Center, developed a technique that uses gold-plated iron-nickel microdiscs connected to brain-cancer-seeking antibodies to fight cancer. The microdiscs are an example of a nanomagnetic material and can be used to probe cell mechanics and activate mechanosensitive ion channels, as well as to advance cancer therapies.

You can see the nanoparticles cause the cancer cells to commit 'suicide' in this video from Argonne:

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