Biomagnetics developed for use in new breast cancer tests
A team from UCL has developed a new medical device which will make the early detection of breast cancer more cost effective and easier to administer. The team -- which won a prestigious Brian Mercer Feasibility Award from the Royal Society yesterday -- plans to use magnetic nanoparticles and an extremely sensitive magnetometer called the "HistoMag" to detect cancerous cells in samples of breast tissue.
In the arena that night, the whole last minute was drowned out by cheers — and then when the soaring music swelled, the confetti rained down as the harbinger of balloons and the hopeful first family took the stage, forget about it — it was a perfect end to a convention that last Monday, no one even knew if it would happen. But it did, and I'm so glad to have been there.
AP - Flanked by officials from the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Robert Mueller last year announced with considerable fanfare a new partnership between his agency and civil rights organizations.
