Faculty Researchers Use Gold to Find Cancer Treatments

The Times of Israel reports that a team of researchers is using gold to develop cancer treatments. The team includes Prof. Rachela Popovtzer of BIU's Faculty of Engineering and Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, as well as scientists from Tel Aviv University, and the Institute of Oncology, Davidoff Cancer Center at Rabin Medical Center. Their findings were first published in the journal Nanoscale in January 2016.