Five-year-old shows courage in battling Ewing's Sarcoma
May 9, 2005 06:44

The Courier, Fri, 29 Apr 2005 12:44 PM PDT
Strength can be measured in many ways. Five-year old Jazlyn Fergusons courage and mental and physical toughness has truly manifested during the last several months. She has inspired her family and friends by keeping an upbeat attitude as she battles Ewings' Sarcoma, a form of bone cancer.

Slashdot, Sun, 08 May 2005 9:11 PM PDT

Moiche writes "Medical researchers at CalTech and the Children's Hospital in Los Angeles have successfully inhibited cancer growth in mice by wrapping engineered RNA in nanomaterials and introducing them into the bloodstream. Two polymers and a special coating allow the therapeutic RNA to enter the cancer cell and release the therapeutic RNA payload. The new technique has slowed or prevented the growth of cancer...

Novel gene-silencing nanoparticles shown to inhibit Ewing's sarcoma. A novel delivery system that transports gene silencing nanoparticles into tumor cells has been shown to inhibit Ewing's sarcoma in an animal model of the disease.

Nanoparticles Silence Childhood Cancer. Nanoparticles have been used to silence growth-promoting genes in a type of cancer called Ewing's sarcoma that affects children. Shown to work in an animal model of the disease, the Trojan horse approach utilizes a protein called transferrin that normally delivers iron into cells.

Sweet nanoparticles successfully deliver drugs to mouse tumours.