Quotes

1. The advantages of nanoparticles are that you can bind them to anything you want to and they can be designed to have really good contrast. You can't do this with fluorophores, for example. They just fluoresce at certain wavelengths.

2. After neurosurgeons remove a tumor from the brain the areas around where the tumor was removed from are more susceptible to developing further cancers.

Topics Mentioned

• University of Michigan
• Purdue University
• Dennis Matthews
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Academic Medical Center at the University of Amsterdam
• Amy L. Oldenburg
• Dirk J. Faber

Authors

• Siân Harris