El Mercurio

Today in the Innovation section of the newspaper El Mercurio the transcendental innovation that our Center has been developing was highlighted. It is a technology that has the potential to attack tumors and cancer cells in a highly localized and less invasive way than chemo and radiotherapy, called Magnetic Hyperthermia.

"The nanoparticles are excited, generate heat and in this way kill cancer cells," explained the researcher and head of the CEDENNA Nanomedicine and Biosensors Laboratory, Dr. Patricia Díaz.

When SARS-CoV-2 began its spread around the world, scientists quickly detected that the virus' Spike protein (which gives it its peculiar shape of crowns around it) was its key to entering human cells to cause infection.

Since then, the focus for developing treatments and vaccines has been on this protein. However, a group of Chilean researchers from the Center for the Development of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Cedenna) found that there are other key proteins that deserve attention.