New probe shows promise for gastric cancer

A research team at Second Affiliated (Xinqiao) Hospital of Army Medical University in Chongqing has designed a nanoprobe that could offer new methods for the diagnosing early gastric cancer.

Their study — In Vivo Anchoring Bis-Pyrene Probe for Molecular Imaging of Early Gastric Cancer by Endoscopic Techniques — was published in Advanced Science, an interdisciplinary opens-access journal of American publishing house John Wiley & Sons. Wiley is a multinational publisher founded in 1807 that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.