NTU Singapore scientists create ‘tracking’ nanoagents to illuminate very small diseased tissues

NTU Singapore scientists create ‘tracking’ nanoagents to illuminate very small diseased tissues

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week -- Polymer nanoagents that can ‘light up’ tiny areas of diseased tissues that conventional methods fail to detect, have been created by a research team led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore)

The nanoagents, known as ‘semiconductor polymer nanoparticles’ (SPNs), can store light energy from sources such as sunlight, near-infrared light or even light from mobile phones, and then emit long-lasting ‘afterglow light’.

The research team from NTU Singapore tailored highly sensitive SPNs to track down and lock on to diseased tissues in the body such as cancerous cells, sending back near-infrared signals which can be received and interpreted by standard imaging equipment.

Scientists and doctors now have more time to look at test results, as the nanoagents continue self-illuminating …

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(2017-12-03), NTU Singapore scientists create ‘tracking’ nanoagents to illuminate very small diseased tissues, Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week, 416, ISSN: 1537-1417, BUTTER® ID: 014743301