UCSB Gold is a new research about treatment of cancer, made by, Scientists of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
UCSB scientists have discovered a new approach by which a cancer-stopping RNA is directly delivered into the nucleus of a diseased cell. But this technique is as costly as gold because special gold nanoshells are used to wrap this cancer-stopping RNA to deliver it into the nucleus and latterly these RNA are selectively opened in the nucleus of diseased cell, by a laser.
The experiment of this new research is performed on cultured cancerous mouse cells. This gold-wrapped RNA was delivered to cancerous cell and this RNA, in the capsule, specially premeditated to silence the genes responsible for separating the cancerous cells into the body was then activated by the non-harmful laser. As soon as the division of the cancerous cells stops, the cancer culture will stop spreading, and would ultimately disappear.
This gold technique is still in its early stages, and the UCSB scientists generously disclose that currently there is no plan for expanding this process to larger targets like tissue samples or entire organisms because the major obstacle is the design of the gold nanocapsule, not the laser, so according to UCSB scientists once they will find the way to utilize this technique on a larger scale, it will be expended for the treatment of cancer.
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