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Last updated on Monday, September 17, 2007
(WEST LAFAYETTE) - Purdue researchers are teaming with experts from South Korea to use microscopic devices to simultaneously diagnose and treat diseases such as cancer.
Twenty South Korean researchers have attended a symposium on the Purdue campus. It is the second such gathering as part of the four-and-a-half million dollar project.
Purdue nano-medicine Professor Jim Leary says they are hoping to use the cutting edge technology to expand so-called targeted therapies.
Leary says it won't be long before many nano-devices are approved for human use. He says researchers are trying to refine a way to efficiently place disease-fighting molecules into the tiny medical tools.
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