Tag: liver

  • Amrita Hospital researchers find way to ‘burn’ liver cancer

    Amrita Hospital researchers find way to ‘burn’ liver cancer

    Researchers at Amrita Hospital have turned a substance commonly found in bones into a potent weapon that can seek and kill tumour cells. Tiny particles of calcium phosphate, a biomineral that is a natural constituent of the bone, when doped with similarly small iron particles, can become what medical scientists call a theranostic agent, a…