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Nanomaterials Used in Possible Cancer Cure

Posted by timothy on from the dern-fancy-doodads dept.

Moiche writes "Medical researchers at CalTech and the Children's Hospital in Los Angeles have successfully inhibited cancer growth in mice by wrapping engineered RNA in nanomaterials and introducing them into the bloodstream. Two polymers and a special coating allow the therapeutic RNA to enter the cancer cell and release the therapeutic RNA payload. The new technique has slowed or prevented the development of secondary tumors in lab mice with Ewing's sarcoma. Further testing is planned on humans, and with other cancers. The Diamond Age seems closer, day by day."

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  1. Re:Why is this even necessary? by jericho4.0 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    No, it's not well established. It's not "established" at all. It's bullshit quackery, right up there with magnetic healing, homeopathic 'medicine' and other frauds.

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  2. Re:Science.Slashdot is dying. by jericho4.0 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm an atheist, and you, sir, are an asshole. What the hell does that have to do with this?

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