Engineering M13 Bacteriophage NIR-II Platforms for Tumor Imaging Applications
UYANGA TSEDEV: So hi, girls. My name is Uyanga. And I am currently at the MIT Koch Institute, which is a building just for cancer research. And today, I'm going to talk about the biological engineering that we do in order to find and image deeply embedded and difficult-to-reach tumors. So currently in the clinic, the number one therapy method for cancer is-- thank you-- for cancer is surgical debulking, which is basically removing of the tumor masses, and then chemotherapy. And so it's very important for surgeons to be able to locate precisely and early on in the stage of the tumor the masses that they want to remove in order to do the most effective therapy. And so cancer cells are basically cells that have unusual dividing abilities. So they proliferate without stop. And they are differentiated from the regular cells around them by certain markers on the surface of the cell. And so what we want to do is use these markers on the surface in the cell in order to fi...