Nanodiamonds in the Treatment of Cancer- Alia Ghoneum and Jim Gimzewski Lab, Mick Lorusso

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Researchers at UCLA, including Alia Ghoneum with Dr. James Gimzewski and Dr. Dean Ho, have shown that diamonds small enough to enter living cells, nanodiamonds, could be instrumental in curing cancer, improving the immune system of the elderly, and helping to heal wounds after surgery.

Recent papers:

Alia Ghoneum, Huanqi Zhu,, JungReem Woo, Nikita Zabinyakov, Shivani Sharma, and James K Gimzewski, Biophysical and morphological effects of nanodiamond/nanoplatinum solution (DPV576) on metastatic murine breast cancer cells in vitro,
Nanotechnology 25 465101 doi:10.1088/0957-4484/25/46/465101 (2014)

Alia Ghoneum, Shivani Sharma, and James K Gimzewski, Nano-hole induction by nanodiamond and nanoplatinum liquid, DPV576, reverses multidrug resistance in human myeloid leukemia (HL60/AR), Dove Press Journal: International Journal of Nanomedicine (18 July 2013) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23888112

Mamdooh Ghoneum, Alia Ghoneum Luceline Tolentino and James K Gimzewski, Modulation of Aged Murine T Lymphocytes In Vivo by DPV576-C, a Nanodiamond- and Nanoplatinum-coated Material, in vivo 24: 141-146 (2010)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20363985

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