Nano-bullet tech shoots down brain cancer in Tel Aviv U study

[King_David]

The worst form of brain cancer, glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), is considered largely incurable by doctors. Victims generally die within a year and a half of being diagnosed with the tumors. It’s such a devastating disease that the National Academy of Sciences calls it “the Terminator.” But an innovative nanotech-based “end-run” around cancer cells by Tel Aviv University researchers could provide doctors with a new way to treat – or even cure – GBM and other malignant killer cancers.

The technique, developed by Prof. Dan Peer of TAU’s Department of Department of Cell Research and Immunology and Scientific Director of TAU’s Center for NanoMedicine, has proven itself in the past: It’s based on the “cancer bullet” system Peer and other TAU researchers developed that delivers chemotherapy directly to cancer cells, using bioadhesive liposomes (BALs), consisting of regular liposomes reduced to nano-sized particles that attach themselves to the cancerous cells. Peer and Prof. Rimona Margalit, with whom he developed the method, have published several studies showing its effectiveness.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/nano-bullet-tech-shoots-down-brain-cancer-in-tel-aviv-u-study/

[King_David]

1. I'm pretty sure the technique will be used everywhere...

BDS ?


LOL

[riverbendviewgal]

2. great news for many.

My 26 year old son died from GBM in 1999. He had 3 operations, several chemo and radiation.he survived 18 months.

He fought it to the end.

[King_David]

3. Sorry to hear that

Sounds like he was very brave.

[riverbendviewgal]

4. he was

It is very interesting that the discovery for this is in Israel, where his fiancee was born. He died the year they were to marry. He was converting. The Rabbi said he had to have a Jewish name and the rabbi chose Zachariah. It was one of the names I was going to name him when he was born. He said he liked it and wished I did. His fiancée married 10 years after his death. Her husband has the same name as my son. Their daughters call me grandma.

Life goes on. L'Chaim

[DFW]

5. GBM killed a cousin at 41 and my brother-in-law at 51

I'd love to see a treatment for it developed. This one is personal, as it could hit me or my wife, considering our family history.

[LeftishBrit]

6. I really hope that works well!

It's a horrible disease. A good friend died of it in her 40s, leaving two young children.

Isn't that what Ted Kennedy died of?

It would be great to have a cure!

[CanonRay]

7. Too late for my friend, who died two years ago.

[Overseas]

8. K&R. Glad to hear it.

[Little Tich]

9. Israeli research and science is punching above its weight as usual.

I like it.