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Could it be that diamonds are more than just a girl’s best friend – and are instrumental in the early detection and treatment of some of the worst types of cancer?
Physicists at the University of Sydney’s ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems have found a way to use nanoscale or synthetic “diamonds” to identify cancerous tumors before they turn life-threatening.
Published in Nature Communications, the study devised a way to use these diamonds – the synthetic, cheaper version that that is more readily accessible – in lighting up early-stage cancers during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans.
