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MIT undergraduate finds novel ways to kill cancer cells selectively

The MIT graduate student Geoffrey Von Maltzahn seeks remedies in Nature to get through hard problems. Gaining foothold in evolutionary inferences, the Ph.D student in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) has taken a larger bull at hand: Finding cancer cures through betterment in tumor diagnosis techniques and their therapist use.

28 year old Geoffrey Von Maltzahn has been accredited for this and give the highly rated  $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for his conclusions in the above field; typically his two conjectures in nanomedicines, which opens up a new way of getting the drugs favorable to malignant tumors.

The three deadly diseases in HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria cannot compare t deaths through cancer; even if their casualties are cumulatively counted. Though much money has gone into the researches, singularizing cancer cells in the body is still a delusion. There is a general form of cure, called Chemotherapy that squeezes the malignant cells which cause tumors. The treatment causes the imbalances in the whole body and is a cause for several side effects; namely alopecia, vomiting, loss of blood and iron and even the neural and muscle disorders. Moreover, it allows the cancer cells to find an answer to it in time and this causes blocking of the treatment cores that was previously started.

Von Maltzahn understands this and his researches have been able to control the outer forces afflicting the body. By trying to cure the tumors singly, he has inter-mingled the revolutionary sciences of nanotechnology, engineering and medicine.

Von Maltzahn has been very arduously working out the solution to kill the tumors with no harsh side effect in tandem with his mentor Dr. Sangeeta N. Bhatia, electrical engineering and computer science professor in the Harvard-MIT Division of HST. Cancer ablation is being give particular attention, it being the process of killing cancer cells by heat, and Von Maltzahn has been successful in inventing polymer-layered golden ‘nano antennas’ that ransack the tumors and turn into heat the mild infra red illumination.

He has structured the nanoparticles in such a way that they are injected in the body and swim through the red blood looking for the tumors and then intrude into them very fast. Then they are heated through cancer ablation very sensitively and they destroy the malignant tissues by implosion.

Von Maltzahn has also made another invention to change the structure of finding tumor recovery through veins. This entails a ‘system’ access. He has based his findings and theories on relatively simple occurrences such as ants foraging and bees swarming, which describe how the complex patterns work in a system…

Von Maltzahn has been heavily motivated by the manner in which nanoparticles subjectively interact and their resultant ability to cure tumors and has himself paved favorable grounds for their talks. He has tried out the manner where the mild particles search the malignant particles and then send specific codes to the killing therapeutic particles to finish them. This has been successful in finding the cancerous particles in rats 40 times than the non- interactive nanoparticles.