What is Yttrium-90 Resin Microsphere?
Yttrium-90 Resin Microspheres created by Sirtex Medical Pty Ltd are the only product in the world using Selective Internal Radiation Therapy (SIRT) to treat colorectal cancer with liver metastasis. Unlike traditional open surgery, yttrium 90 resin microspheres SIRT treatment requires only a small opening in the patient's body, and [...]
Yttrium-90 Resin Microsphere — Terminator of Liver Cancer?
On June 19,2022, Grand Pharmaceutical announced that its tumor segment Wuhan SHETAI Medical Technology Co., Ltd. ( referred to as Shetai medical in short) had an innovative "nuclear weapon" product - yttrium resin microsphere injection (Chinese trade name: Yigantai®) for the treatment of liver malignant tumors). Seven academicians from [...]
Fauci Recommends Johnson & Johnson Vaccine
Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical advisor, recommends taking the newly approved Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine despite its lower efficiency. The J&J vaccine was 72% effective overall compared with Pfizer’s 95% and Moderna’s 94% in clinical trials. Fauci said the Johnson & Johnson vaccine might [...]
Immunotherapy to Treat Cancer Lights 2018 Nobel Laureates
Cancer kills millions of people every year and is one of humanity’s greatest health challenges. By stimulating the inherent ability of our immune system to attack tumor cells this year’s Nobel Laureates have established an entirely new principle for cancer therapy. The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [...]
The World’s first Mapping of Mammalian Cell Altas by Microwell-Seq
A group of scientists from ZheJiang University have successfully mapped the mouse cell altas by Microwell-seq in February 2018. They delveloped a new Microwell-seq, a high-throughput and low-cost scRNA-seq platform using simple and inexpensive devices to map the mouse cell altas for the first time in human history. By [...]
35 Core Technologies which makes China Left Behind
In recent years, China's science and technology is running forward with the power of enthusiasm, and gradually entered the stage of running, running, and leading the "three runs coexist". However, we should keep sober and rational while full of confidence. Compared with the developed countries, China's key core technologies [...]
Graphene Microspheres-Next Generation Battery Material
Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms from graphite, and is receiving much attention in the battery and display industry due to its physical, chemical stability. Graphene is 100 times more effective than copper in conducting electricity and displays remarkable electron mobility – 140 times faster than silicon [...]
Chromatographic Methods for Carbohydrates Analysis
Carbohydrates are one of the most important components in many foods. Carbohydrates may be present as isolated molecules or they may be physically associated or chemically bound to other molecules. Individual molecules can be classified according to the number of monomers that they contain as monosaccharides, oligosaccharides or polysaccharides. Molecules [...]
Two Methods to Extract DNA from Whole Blood
1. Magnetic Beads Method to Extract DNA from Whole Blood Magnetic bead capture is the newest method of extracting DNA. Extracting DNA from whole blood using magnetic beads works by capturing DNA on silica magnetic beads for binding nucleic acid.As with the precipitation chemistry methods, the whole blood cells first [...]
The application of Fe3O4 nanoparticles in cancer research
Recently, nanoparticles have attracted interest of scientists in various areas of biomedical research because of the unique properties of the nanomaterials. It is already known that one of the major breakthroughs in the relative application of nanoparticles is the realization of the steric stability in the biological environment and provide [...]