{"56398":{"#nid":"56398","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Magnets Capture Cancer Cells","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis article is from Technology Review:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMagnetic nanoparticles coated with a specialized targeting molecule were able to latch on to cancer cells in mice and drag them out of the body. The results are described in a study published online this month in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The study\u0027s authors, researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology, hope that the new technique will one day provide a way to test for--and potentially even treat--metastatic ovarian cancer.  \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/Biotech\/21112\/\u0027\u003E(more) \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Magnetic nanoparticles coated with a specialized targeting molecule were able to latch on to cancer cells in mice and drag them out of the body. The results are described in a study published online this month in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The study\u0027s authors, researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology, hope that the new technique will one day provide a way to test for--and potentially even treat--metastatic ovarian cancer.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Nanoparticles pluck cancer cells from the bellies of mice"}],"uid":"27224","created_gmt":"2008-07-24 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:06","author":"Megan McDevitt","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-07-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-07-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"140","name":"Cancer Research"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"385","name":"cancer"},{"id":"2371","name":"John McDonald"},{"id":"2286","name":"nano"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EMegan McDevitt\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIBB\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=mm504\u0022\u003EContact Megan McDevitt\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-7001\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["megan.mcdevitt@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}