Canadian Researchers to Create Nano-devices to Detect Breast Cancer

Dr. Jamal Deen, photo courtesy of McMaster University

Imagine this, five years in the future: your doctor gives you a pill, which contains sub-microscopic devices. These nano-devices could be miniature scanners and sensors, which can detect the development of breast cancer, as soon as the disease starts to function. So, before a solid tumor would show up on an MRI or a CT scan, the nano-device in the little pill would send an image of the cancer's activity to your doctor. Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) is partnering with McMaster University, giving the researchers $4.25-million grant to begin their work.

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