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October 14th, 2004
Cellular strategy
Abstract:
To the incredibly tiny gold particles doctors send to search a blood sample for signs of illness, human cells would seem as big as mountains.
But the particles' mission is to hunt down something more their size: prostate specific antigen, or PSA, a signal that prostate cancer may be on its way to returning, long before it does.
Source:
kentucky.com
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