New Finding: Nano Diamond Can Identify Early-stage Cancer!

Recently, physicists from University of Sydney, have developed a way that is to use diamond to identify the cancer which has not been enough to threaten human life. Yes, what I'm talking about is diamond-shiny carbon molecules that let countless women fall in love.

The discovery of physicists has been published in the journal Nature Communications. The result of this research reveals the success that how the nanoscale gem synthetic versions identify early cancer cells in non-toxic, non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging scans.

A new study has found that: Nano diamond can identify early-stage cancer. It is learned that using customized chemicals for cancer is not a new idea, but scientists are difficult to detect where these chemicals are going after entering the human body. And in addition to the biopsy, the current medical level limits scientists and they do not have a lot of methods to ensure their treatment methods that they have adopted are really effective against cancer. David Reilly, a professor in Institute of physics of University of Sydney , lead some researchers to study these nanoscale diamonds, hoping to be able to determine if they could help doctors find the early stage of cancer cells.

David Reilly said: "We all know that the drugs that are used in chemotherapy are very interested in these nanoscale diamonds, because they are nontoxic and non reactive in the very great degree." He added: "We think we can base on their non-toxic characteristics, effectively making a drug problem into a physical problem, because the magnetic characteristics of diamond make them become a beacon of the nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (fmri)."

Currently, David Reilly and his team have put their attention to "How to make nanoscale diamond hyperpolarization", whose process is aligned with internal atoms of diamonds. As a result, researchers are able to create a signal that can be detected by magnetic resonance imaging scans.

The paper's first author-Ewa Rej said: "This technology can make the hyperpolarization diamond clinging to the molecular of cancer, and then we can track molecular movement in the patient's body by nuclear magnetic resonance imaging scans."

"This is a very outstanding example that quantum physics research solves the problem of reality. In this case, we get target image before cancer really threaten the life, which is critical." David Reilly said.

The next phase of this team is mainly to work with medical researchers, and test the new technology on animals. Not only that, they will also conduct the research work how to use the scorpion venom and mri scans to do brain tumor marker at the same time.