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Radioactive nanoparticles that target cancer cells developed

Researchers at the University of Missouri have found a way to create radioactive nanoparticles that target lymphoma tumor cells wherever they may be in the body. Cancers of all types become most deadly when they metastasize and spread tumors throughout the body. Once cancer has reached this stage, it becomes very difficult for doctors to locate and treat the numerous tumors that can ...
Museum offers a look at life in the Missouri State Penitentiary

oVisitors to Jefferson City will be able to get a glimpse of life at the Missouri State Penitentiary at a new museum.The Missouri State Penitentiary Museum is scheduled to open on Tuesday, at the Jefferson City Convention and Visitors Bureau.Museum officials say the idea for the facility out of the popularity of tours of the penitentiary in Jefferson City.The museum features artifacts and ...
How a mom child survived Moore tornado

Mother & baby survive tornado together - The shock of the devastation in Moore, Okla. continues to set in for victims of the tornado. Kathy Gonzalez and her 3-year-old daughter were in their second floor apartment when the tornado hit Monday. She grabbed the girl and ran to the club house, praying they would survive. "I didn't bring a pillow, nothing." Gonzalez said. "I ...
3 women found alive are happy and safe

That was the message in a letter released by their attorneys on Tuesday that also noted a charity fund to help the women has now raised more than ...
Mo. woman loses mother in Moore tornado

Angeletta Santiago wanted to be closer to her mother, but her mother died on Monday, when an EF-5 tornado hit her home in the Oklahoma City suburb of ...

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Boy Scouts to vote on lifting gay ban

GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) - The Boy Scouts of America will convene a two-day meeting of 1,400 local leaders to consider changing its long-standing ban openly gay boys belonging to the scouting ...
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The Royals rallied Tuesday for a 7-3 victory at Minute Maid Park by scoring all seven runs against the Astros bullpen and with the aid of some atrocious defense. So what? The Royals ended their four-game losing streak, pulled back to .500 at 21-21 and avoided the possibility of getting swept by the ...
Fords Kansas City growth part of major production capacity increase

The Ford F150 truck assembly line at the Ford Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo. Ford Motor Co. plans to increase its North American production capacity by 200,000 vehicles this year, partly through production-line expansions. The Wall Street Journal reports Ford is also shortening by a week its typical summer shutdown at several plants. In Kansas City, Ford intends to add a third shift to ...
Amazon CEOs Saturn V rocket engines conserved in Kansas

-- An Apollo Saturn V F-1 engine thrust chamber, recovered by Bezos Expeditions, at the Kansas Cosmosphere's SpaceWorks conservation facility. The engine's nozzle would extend from the top as positioned in the wooden ...
Worker killed in towing company accident

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. - An employee was killed while working on a vehicle Tuesday night at a St. Joseph towing company. Police say the man died after the accident, at about 10 p.m., at Sauter Towing on S. 9th Street. A vehicle he was working on reportedly fell on him. He was pronounced dead at the scene. It's being investigated as an industrial accident. The man's identity has not yet been ...

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Radioactive nanoparticles that target cancer cells developed

Researchers at the University of Missouri have found a way to create radioactive nanoparticles that target lymphoma tumor cells wherever they may be in the body.

Cancers of all types become most deadly when they metastasize and spread tumors throughout the body. Once cancer has reached this stage, it becomes very difficult for doctors to locate and treat the numerous tumors that can develop.

Michael Lewis, an associate professor of oncology in the MU College of Veterinary Medicine, stated that being able to target secondary tumors is vital to successfully treating patients with progressive cancers.

"Depending on the type of cancer, primary tumors usually are not the cause of death for cancer patients. If a cancer metastasizes, or spreads creating hard-to-find tumors, it often becomes fatal. Having a way to identify and shrink these secondary tumors is of utmost importance when fighting to save people with these diseases," Lewis said.

In an effort to find a way to locate and kill secondary tumors, Lewis, in collaboration with J. David Robertson, director of research at the MU Research Reactor and professor of chemistry in the College of Arts and Science, have successfully created nanoparticles made of a radioactive form of the element lutetium. ...