Nanotubes Help Advance Brain Tumor Research

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Benham Badie M.D. director of the Department of Neurosurgery and the Brain Tumor program at City of Hope performs a minimally invasive procedure to surgically remove a pituitary tumor. Nanotube technology may help in the development of new treatments ...
Benham Badie, M.D., director of the Department of Neurosurgery and the Brain Tumor program at City of Hope, performs a minimally invasive procedure to surgically remove a pituitary tumor. Nanotube technology may help in the development of new treatments that would require only minimally invasive procedures no matter the location of the brain tumor. Image credit: City of Hope

The potential of carbon nanotubes to diagnose and treat brain tumors is being explored through a partnership between NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and City of Hope, a leading cancer research and treatment center in Duarte, Calif.


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