17-AAG Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:10:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg 17-AAG Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 Calgary Student Wins National Science Prize For Cancer Therapy Research https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/04/09/1-calgary-student-wins-national-science-prize-for-cancer-therapy-research/ Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:10:21 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=9935 A high school student from Calgary has won the Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge Canada competition for his research into an experimental cancer therapy.

Arjun Nair, 16, is a grade 11 student at Webber Academy. His winning experiment involved photothermal therapy (PTT), which is used to treat cancer.

With PTT, a patient is injected with gold nanoparticles. A nanoparticle is a microscopic particle of a substance, less than one-millionth the size of a grain of sand.

The gold nanoparticles collect in the patient’s cancerous tumours. When the tumours are bathed with laser light, the nanoparticles heat up and kill the cancer cells.

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