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Remotely Activated Nanoparticles Destroy Cancer

technologyreview.com — "By replacing surgery and conventional chemotherapy with noninvasive treatments targeted at cancerous tumors, this nanotech approach could reduce or eliminate side effects by avoiding damage to healthy tissue. It could also make it possible to destroy tumors that are inoperable or won't respond to current treatment."

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flag8, on 10/12/2007, -13/+2This managed to get on the front page and no one's commented yet?
- NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Well, in all fairness, this isn't really front page news. If you look around PhysOrg and such, "experiments" like these are a daily occurence. If these nanoparticles could destroy cancer and make you breakfast at the same time, now that's a story.
- Wootery, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1flag8... flag564's apprentice?
  
  Now there are two of them!
Navitron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This sounds really interesting its a step in the right direction.
- lcohiomatty86, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2hmm.. sounds like borg technology..
  
  /sarcasm
JorgeGonzalez, on 10/12/2007, -9/+13Why go through all this trouble when you can just pray the cancer away?
dooraque, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1COULD.
Misleading headline, buried.
TheThirdWheel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8This is going to make an awesome episode of House.
supermanred, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This couldve saved my father. Yay for nanotech!
- TheThirdWheel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4How could nano particles have saved the planet Krypton?
tisfl37, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Cool technology. I hope that it makes it thru the clinical trials. I'm not sure what NanoStuff's problem is. I don't normally look for these types of things, and find it quite appropriate for Digg. Better than some political garbage where the left and right are bashing each other. Bring this kind of stuff on, that's why I come to Digg.
btgoss, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Chemo sucks so I would sign up for this... of course if it escapes my body and terraforms the planet that would suck too....
- subscribtion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Do you know what terraform means? It's kinda impossible to do to the Earth since it is already in the form of terra.
subscribtion, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I, for one, welcome are cancer-curing nanotech.
- thechao, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I remember about 6 years ago when they were still figuring out how target and then activate the AU-nanos. In particular, the amount of energy released is not easily controlled (I mean... it's inside of living tissue, so controlling the excitation from the lasing-source can be very problematic). Anyways, sometimes they would overdo the total excitation for the particles; result? the (rat in these cases) would 'catch on fire'. Literally, cooked from the inside out. This stuff is way cool, though. If Smally is (the Buckeyball guy) still alive, this is probably his group.
- yournamehere, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4subscribtion,
  that was so poorly written it gave me cancer
moondust, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Fascinating article, especially for the likes of me who generally doesn't come across this type of news.
- NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"especially for the likes of me who generally doesn't come across this type of news."
  
  You ever get that 'feeling' when someone says something not particularly baffling yet strangely odd?
ILoveBoobies, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Jimmy Neutron is the man!!!!
ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hopefully, they have a fail-proof way of turning those little suckers off once they have destroyed the cancer. I sure wouldn't want those things running amok inside of me.
- NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm sure they have developed nanoparticle killing cancers by now. Once it gets rid of all your nanoparticles, all you have to do is treat the cancer and presto!
drchickenbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Well, in all fairness, this isn't really front page news..."
I agree with NanoStuff, regarding the worthiness of front page exposure for this article. Technologyreview is not a big journal so they most likely haven't made an major breakthrough yet.
epicduelgirl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I am very excited about this possible breakthrough in cancer treatment. My mother has had a third resurgance of breast cancer and this time it has spread and is no longer operable. I only hope that this technology suceeds and becomes available to the public fairly soon...
- SlowOnTheUptake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hope so too and I hope that your mother has a good outcome. Someday, news like this will precede a real major breakthrough in cancer treatment. Who knows, maybe this will be it.
  
  Just a little aside ... when I saw your comment a few minutes ago, I noted that at least one reader had Dugg you down. Just out of curiosity, who would do that and why?
Jaichim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I went to a class a couple of Rice professors in the chemistry department did on this a little over a year ago, during the summer. It looked incredibly promising then, looks even better now.
GMNikku, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How do the nanoparticles only target cancer cells?
- Jaichim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Surface proteins on the balls.
rjani57, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1key part of first para reads..
"...if the promise of animal trials carries through to human trials, these treatments will ...."
Big IF. Till then, perhaps best to look at preventative therapy. Like including some foods in your diet. A separate post at http://digg.com/health/15_Foods_You_Shouldn_t_Live_Without gives examples of 4 out of 15 common foods listed that prevent/negate the effects of cancer. Choice between good food or non-invasive treatment? Food wins. Every time!
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