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Spinal (SMA) is a genetic disease that causes muscle weakness and wasting, known as atrophy. People with SMA often have difficulties moving, swallowing, sitting up, and sometimes breathing. Learn more via Healthline

How Common is Spinal Muscular Atrophy? Your FAQs Answers to common questions about SMA, including disease frequency, what it means to be a carrier of SMA, how SMA affects life expectancy, and more.

Diagnostic nanoparticles could be used to monitor tumor recurrence after treatment or to perform routine cancer screenings.
Read more about it via Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

A noninvasive test to detect cancer cells and pinpoint their location MIT engineers have created a nanoparticle for cancer diagnosis that can reveal the presence of cancerous proteins through a urine test, and can also function as an imaging agent, pinpointing the tumor location.