{"id":2133,"date":"2015-08-20T03:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2015-08-15T12:19:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T17:19:41","slug":"levitating-cells-may-lead-to-a-cancer-cure-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/20\/levitating-cells-may-lead-to-a-cancer-cure-breakthrough\/","title":{"rendered":"Levitating Cells May Lead to a Cancer Cure Breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_642\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-642\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MP9003902171.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-642\" src=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MP9003902171-200x142.jpg\" alt=\"Super Charged Cells\" width=\"200\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MP9003902171-200x142.jpg 200w, https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MP9003902171.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">levitating Cells<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.issels.com\/\">Issels\u00ae<\/a>\u00a0team is extremely supportive of any\u00a0process that makes detecting\u00a0cancer cells easier, which is why we are highly enthusiastic about research published in May\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/112\/28\/E3661.full.pdf\"><em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em><\/a>\u00a0about a potential new diagnostic tool that can detect cancer at the cellular level in a fast and simple way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/270805-biology-medicine-cells-levitation\/\">Researchers at Stanford University<\/a>\u00a0have learned how to detect and identify different types of cancer cells by levitating them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s Not Magic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When most people hear the word \u201clevitate,\u201d they think of\u00a0magicians tricking\u00a0audiences into believing magic exists by floating\u00a0objects or people in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered that they can levitate animals by injecting them with a material that reacts to\u00a0the presence of magnets. The Stanford researchers wondered if they could do the same with cells to\u00a0determine if cells had different measurable magnetic field levitation profiles. As cells are too small to inject with materials without damaging them, the researchers decided to test their theory using a buoyant force:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They placed a channel of\u00a0gadolinium-laced fluid between two small magnets and soon found that any cells that were less dense than gadolinium levitated above it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>They learned that\u00a0cancer cells levitated\u00a0above healthy cells and that\u00a0cancer,\u00a0bacteria, blood and yeast cells levitated at different heights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>They also discovered that cells that form different types of cancer, such as breast, colorectal, esophageal and non-small cell lung had unique profiles and levitated at different heights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information about this astounding new diagnostic test research, or any of our currently available testing and treatment methods, <a href=\"http:\/\/issels.com\/questionnaire\/request-issels-info.asp\">contact<\/a> any Issels\u00ae center for Immuno-Oncology today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our\u00a0Issels\u00ae\u00a0team is extremely supportive of any\u00a0process that makes detecting\u00a0cancer cells easier, which is why we are highly enthusiastic about research published in May\u2019s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\u00a0about a potential new diagnostic tool that can detect cancer at the cellular level in a fast and simple way. Researchers at Stanford University\u00a0have learned how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/20\/levitating-cells-may-lead-to-a-cancer-cure-breakthrough\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Levitating Cells May Lead to a Cancer Cure Breakthrough<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,203,2],"tags":[457,224,259],"class_list":["post-2133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-cancer-treatment","category-cancer-research","category-news","tag-cancer-cells","tag-cancer-treatment","tag-fighting-cancer"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2134,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions\/2134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}