This ismdone by a guy called Fred Hawthorne here at UCLA - really neat
tecnhique - only really for brain tumors
Fergus
UCLA
In article <30B28E0D.766A at cell.cinvestav.mx>, Heinz Hemken
<hhemken at cell.cinvestav.mx> wrote:
> There already exists such a technique with a certain isotope of boron
> attached to substances which are preferentially bound or taken up by
> tumor cells. The boron disintegrates when irriadiated with certain
> low-energy radiation, killing the cell it is attached to (or something
> like that).
>> Can't give you any lit refs, but I'm sure you can find something on
> medline.
>> --
> Heinz Hemken
> Departamento de Biologia Celular, CINVESTAV-IPN
>http://www.cell.cinvestav.mx/bchh.html
