Glowing Tumos (IMAGE)

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Glowing Tumos

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Radiolabeled protein lights up tumor implanted in the arm of a mouse under a PET scan. The researchers hope to use scans like this one to to calculate in real time how much of an immunotherapy drug reaches a tumor and what parts of a cancer remain unaffected.

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Sridhar Nimmagadda

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