Modulight Spotlights: LASER-SHARP RESEARCH – November 2024

November 19, 2024 by Modulight Content
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 Modulight Spotlights: LASER-SHARP RESEARCH – November 2024 The lungs are common site of cancer metastasis, with isolated pulmonary metastases most often affecting patients with colorectal cancer and sarcomas. Surgical metastasectomy is the standard treatment, however, only 1 in 10 patients qualify for surgical resection thus the management remains a significant clinical challenge. To tackle this challenge, K. Ramadan et al. studied photodynamic therapy in an isolated lung perfusion model where the blood is replaced with acellular perfusate, allowing greater light penetration. The feasibility and safety Continue reading →

Modulight Spotlights: LASER-SHARP RESEARCH – October 2024

October 24, 2024 by Modulight Content
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Modulight Spotlights: LASER-SHARP RESEARCH – October 2024 This month, we are highlighting new findings published in RSC Materials Advances by Olga Lem, Roosa Kekki and researchers at Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology research group and Tampere University. The study provides key insights into the role of lipid oxidation in cargo release from light-activated liposomes. These spherical lipid vesicles can be controlled by light to provide time- and site-specific drug delivery, for example for cancer treatment. Red light provides a non-invasive, selective, and safe trigger for releasing liposomal cargo. Modulight’s Continue reading →

Modulight Spotlights: LASER-SHARP RESEARCH – September 2024

September 23, 2024 by Modulight Content
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 Modulight Spotlights: LASER-SHARP RESEARCH – September 2024 University of Maryland and Modulight have published together a new research study about the mechanisms of cancer drug resistance. Drug resistance is a leading cause of treatment failure and often has dramatic consequences for survival of cancer patients. Cancer cells have developed various ways to protect themselves from drugs. When several clinically used photoactive drugs were studied, it was shown that some of them were being actively pumped out by cancer cells, thus likely limiting the full therapeutic potential Continue reading →

Modulight Spotlights: LASER-SHARP RESEARCH – August 2024

August 7, 2024 by Modulight Content
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                    Modulight Spotlights: LASER-SHARP RESEARCH – August 2024 This month’s research highlight goes to Hirofumi Hanaoka and the team at Kansai Medical University, Japan. They developed a new laser fiber and method for illumination of narrow cavities, such as esophagus. With typical laser fibers, it is difficult to precisely illuminate target tumor in a narrow space at an oblique angle, since there is not enough space for fiber bending. The new lateral (side) emitting laser fiber was developed and evaluated for near-infrared photoimmunotherapy, which combines light, Continue reading →

Modulight Spotlights: LASER-SHARP RESEARCH – July 2024

July 26, 2024 by Modulight Content
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 Modulight Spotlights: LASER-SHARP RESEARCH – July 2024 Exciting new findings in prostate cancer research were reported by Xinning Wang and team at Case Western University, Comprehensive Cancer Center. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men and despite typically good prognosis, is a leading cause of cancer-related death. In the new study, the team combined chemotherapy with a novel light-activated, theranostic agent to enable targeted imaging and treatment of prostate cancer. Using ML7710 laser at 672 nm for activation of the drug, they were Continue reading →

Modulight Spotlights: LASER-SHARP RESEARCH – June 2024

June 12, 2024 by Modulight Content
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 Modulight Spotlights: LASER-SHARP RESEARCH – June 2024 A promising new therapy against viruses was developed at University of Manitoba and Theralase Technologies. Infectious agents are a global problem, causing millions of deaths every year. The study evaluated antiviral effectiveness of a cancer drug (Ruvidar), which is currently in clinical development for bladder cancer. When this drug was activated with green laser using Modulight’s ML6600, it resulted in a rapid elimination of many different human viruses. Impressively, it was >99% effective at low doses in inactivating human coronavirus, influenza Continue reading →

Modulight Spotlights: LASER-SHARP RESEARCH – May 2024

May 23, 2024 by Modulight Content
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 Modulight Spotlights: LASER-SHARP RESEARCH – May 2024 A new publication by Professor Bryan Spring and his team at Northeastern University has shown promising results for improved photoimmunotherapy protocols using patient-derived ovarian cancer cells. Using Modulight’s ML6000-series laser as part of the new protocol, they successfully minimized non-specific damage to cells that was caused by a small fraction of non-covalently bound (free) photosensitive drug, which is typically cleared in vivo by lymph and blood flow. They also showed the importance of using more biologically relevant cancer Continue reading →

Modulight Spotlights: LASER-SHARP RESEARCH – April 2024

April 10, 2024 by Modulight Content
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 Modulight Spotlights: LASER-SHARP RESEARCH – April 2024 First-in-human, phase 1 clinical trial results with ML7710 have been published in a renowned journal Radiology by Timothy Baran and team at University of Rochester Medical Center. The trial investigated treatment of deep tissue abscesses using photodynamic therapy with methylene blue and ML7710 laser. Abscesses are painful collection of pus, usually caused by a bacterial infection. Standard treatment is abscess drainage and antibiotics, however treatment responses vary widely and are linked to prolonged hospital stay, costs, and patient discomfort, as well as increasing concerns for antibiotic-resistance. The trial in 18 Continue reading →

Modulight Spotlights: LASER-SHARP RESEARCH – March 2024

March 7, 2024 by Modulight Content
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 Modulight Spotlights: LASER-SHARP RESEARCH – March 2024 Glioblastoma is the most aggressive type of brain tumor. It is hard to treat because of its invasion into functioning brain tissues, limited drug delivery due to blood-brain-barrier, and evolved treatment resistance. To address these challenges, a light-activated nanoformulation, called nanoVP, was developed for glioblastoma in a new study co-led by John Quinlan and Collin Inglut in Dr. Huang’s team at the University of Maryland. Published in a prestigious journal Advanced Science, this novel therapy resulted in an improved tumor control and survival Continue reading →

Modulight Spotlights: LASER-SHARP RESEARCH – February 2024

February 29, 2024 by Modulight Content
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 Modulight Spotlights: LASER-SHARP RESEARCH – February 2024 Photoactivated chemotherapy (PACT) is a novel anticancer therapy where cytotoxic drug is attached into a photocage, which is cleaved by light to release the drug at the tumor site. A new study led by Prof. Sylvestre Bonnet’s group at Leiden University, demonstrated a significantly improved agent for photoactivated chemotherapy. ML6600 laser was used to study the drug release from the photocage, comparing efficacy between red and green light. It was shown that the agent could be effectively released Continue reading →