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- RHA0, on 07/31/2008, -2/+23digg: curing cancer and AIDS on a daily basis
- DebsW, on 07/30/2008, -1/+10Wow, that's an amazing possibility. To be able to target cancer cells more efficiently and cause less damage to healthy cells would make it so much more bearable for people receiving treatment..
- DickyT83, on 07/31/2008, -1/+5Reading articles like this make me feel incredibly stupid.
- MrFurious2k, on 07/31/2008, -0/+4Interesting and reminds me of another nanoparticle style anti-cancer treatment. Some time ago (December?) I read an article on Kanzius's idea for killing cancer cells with no side effects or damage to surrounding tissues. Essentially, they used some sort of a protein marker to identify cancer cells, bind the nanoparticles to cells with that marker, and then use radio waves to superheat the particle. The result is precision obliteration of the cancer cells leaving the surrounding healthy tissue unaffected.
http://www.kanziuscancerresearch.org/
Worth a read (found it in a GIS). - cr250guy, on 07/31/2008, -1/+4Weird i was just studying the how Photofrin is used to treat cancer tonight actually for physics...It's cool to see that they are improving on this technology.
- taketheleap, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2only downside: this wont be available to Common Joes until 2015.
- tcpip4lyfe, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1Here's our next cure for cancer for the week.
- hollyminkowski, on 07/31/2008, -1/+2Cool!
Anything to further the fight against cancer is great! - SilverBlade2k, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1Again..I say this. Stop coming out with 'possible' cures..and actually come with with a CURE. I'm tired of seeing "We found a way to kill cancer without harm to other cells" stories, and seeing NOTHING come from it.
Unless they have successful HUMAN trials that are cancer-free (NOT REMISSION), then I'll consider these 'achievements' as vaporware. - iJessicaRabbit, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1About a year ago, as I was waiting to fall asleep I thought up the idea of nanoparticles pinpointing specific characteristics of cancer cells and then initiating a kill sequence (apoptosis) to get rid of cancer cells. The next morning I spoke to my cell biology professor who basically said it wouldn't be possible so I prepared to write a research paper on my ideas.... that's when I saw it was already thought up by someone else :)
- iancgi, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1Its possible and they have done it. Namely with gold nanoparticles that seek out cancer cells then explode.
- DrJG, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1Thank you, SirPopper, once again.
- hughesj919, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is just a modification of John Kanzius's machine. Kanzius invented it in his kitchen. Of course some doctor somewhere would try to pawn it off as his own novel creation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kanzius - DrJG, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1That was described in the article.
- MOJIRA, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1Seriously, I've stopped checking these articles out. This one caught my eye though because nano anything is cool.
- werries, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1yay iron poisoning!
- Coinspinner, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1Is this the same University of Virginia that discovered the cure for cancer on 19 August 1974 ? Turned out to be weed, who'd a thunk it?
Or was that the Medical University of Virginia ? - hypertension, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1Is it just me, or does this seem to be an amazing week for medicine?
Pills that kill HIV.
Pills that reverse Alzheimer's.
And now this! Brilliant! - JimmyYeung, on 07/31/2008, -1/+1Nanobots + Liquid = World Take Over
- Stormwern, on 07/31/2008, -2/+2This is not a breakthrough, there was an article about doing the same thing but with micro waves six months ago. For it to work you have to inject the nanoparticles into the tumour itself.
- omega6, on 07/31/2008, -0/+0"Yang will describe the technique in his talk, "Enhanced Energy Transfer From Mega-Voltage Radiation to the Tumor Cell Killing Singlet Oxygen by Semiconductive Nanoparticles," on Tuesday, July 29"
Wow talk about a title to a speech. - thechao, on 07/31/2008, -0/+0Meh. Yet another "directed light source" nanoparticle system. The real gold is in targeted nanoparticle biosensors (example paper: http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/42858 ... The idea is to coat a nanoparticle in multiple layers of protein. The outermost layer is a targeting protein for a novelly expressing protein on the surface of the cancer cell, along with some sugar. When the nanoparticle is uptaken by the cell, the outermost layer is stripped off, allowing the second layer to become active; this second layer starts an apoptotic reaction, killing the cancer cell. The toxicity is 0 for non-cancer cells and, given a proper treatment time, 100% for cancer cells.
- megamod, on 07/31/2008, -1/+1and making people glow like ET
- drizzlelicious, on 07/31/2008, -3/+2How do you avoid killing healthy cells, and make sure you get all the cancerous cells?
- Balath, on 07/31/2008, -3/+2My favorite way of killing tumors is with ferro fluid.
Inject fluid, expose to quickly pulsating magnetic field, and watch friction tear the thing apart.
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