Scientists have taken a step towards understanding the way plasma beams can kill cancer cells, potentially leading to the development of new therapies for the killer disease. Treatment by plasma beam – highly energetic particles with positive and negative charges – has some advantages over other treatments, for example it is free of the side effects that go with radiotherapy and is more precise than laser treatments.
The European Patent Office (EPO) on Thursday awarded a prize to late Chinese virologist and cervical cancer expert Zhou Jian and Australian immunologist Ian Frazer for developing the world's first cervical cancer vaccine. Zhou and Frazer met at the University of Cambridge in 1989 and later started to work together on the vaccine against Human papillomavirus (HPV), a major cause of cervical cancer, at the University of Queensland in Australia.
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