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Nanomaterials Used in Possible Cancer Cure

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. Excellent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    So now, nanobots not only can defeat the Borg, but they can also cure cancer. W00t!

  2. Mice and Men by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mice may save mankind again!

    1. Re:Mice and Men by Punboy · · Score: 2, Funny

      Actually, mice created mankind. It was the dolphins that saved us.

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      If you like what I've said here, and want to read more, go to http://www.krillrblog.com
  3. Nanomaterials by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    The smallest buzzword ever created by Man

  4. Re:God I am pathetic by simcop2387 · · Score: 2, Funny

    i just hope that microsoft doesn't answer that with. either Active RNA or RNA.NET just immagine if spammers get popups in your skin pigments!

  5. Re:Why is this even necessary? by mcc · · Score: 5, Funny

    Have you ever tried to changed your internal pH to be alkaline balance? I'm sure you haven't cause you would be dead.

    In which case it would most definitely be impossible for cancer to form.

    The technique works!

  6. Re:You're insane by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    No, it wouldn't because "your" is a word in and of itself, whereas in the phrase you have used as an example, you want to tell the person that they ARE something, so you use the apostrophe as a contraction, which gives you the following:

    You're an idiot.

    and in your case - You're a fucking idiot.

  7. Win-Win by TapeCutter · · Score: 3, Funny

    Feed the mouse to the starving Africans.

    (oooooooh, that was sick, but strangely amusing!).

    --
    And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
  8. Re:In a perfect world by nucal · · Score: 3, Funny

    An internist and a surgeon come to an elevator. The door is closing, so the internist inserts his hand.

    "Why'd you do that?" asks the surgeon.

    "Well," the internist answers, "you use the least important part of your body to stop an elevator door."

    They go into another wing, and approach another elevator. It's closing. So the surgeon sticks his head in.

  9. Re:In a perfect world by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wait, you mean research ISN'T paid for by the billions and billions of dollars big pharma has? But I thought thats why we were paying so much more for our drugs than most other countries out there!

    I can't believe I was lied to!