Cancer therapy: Single‐Cell‐Level Cancer Therapy Using a Hollow Optical Fiber‐Based Microplasma (Small 14/2010)

The cover image shows a flexible microplasma jet device with a hollow-core optical fiber producing a plasma plume that is quite narrow but long enough to apply direct treatment to single tumor cells. The microplasma induces apoptosis in murine melanoma cells in a dose-dependent manner, and under certain conditions can selectively destroy tumor cells with no harm to murine fibroblasts. For more information, please read the Communication “Single-Cell-Level Cancer Therapy Using a Hollow Optical Fiber-Based Microplasma” by S.-O. Kim and co-workers, beginning on page 1474.