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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."
So now, nanobots not only can defeat the Borg, but they can also cure cancer. W00t!
Mice may save mankind again!
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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!
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!
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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.
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.