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‪#‎Diamonds‬ can help spot ‪#‎cancers‬ at early stage.
‪#‎Researchers‬ have found a way to use diamonds to act as beacons in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans and identify cancerous tumours before they become life-threatening.

Their findings revealed how a synthetic version of the precious gem can light up early-stage cancers in MRI scans.

"We knew nano diamonds were of interest for delivering drugs during chemotherapy because they are largely non-toxic and non-reactive," said David Reilly from University of Sydney in Australia.

"We thought we could build on these non-toxic properties realising that diamonds have magnetic characteristics enabling them to act as beacons in MRIs," Reilly noted.

The researchers turned their ‪#‎attention‬ to hyperpolarising nano-diamonds, a process of aligning atoms inside a diamond so they create a‪#‎signal‬ detectable by an MRI scanner.

"By attaching hyperpolarised diamonds to molecules targeting cancers the technique can allow tracking of the molecules' movement in the ‪#‎body‬," the study's lead author Ewa Rej from ‪#‎University‬ of Sydney noted.

"This is a ‪#‎great‬ example of how quantum physics research tackles real-world problems, in this case opening the way for us to ‪#‎image‬ and ‪#‎target‬cancers long before they become ‪#‎life‬-threatening.
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