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Nanotech Trojan Horse That Kills Cancer

Posted by Zonk on from the raaaaaaaaaiiiiiid? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "University of Michigan scientists have created the nanotechnology equivalent of a Trojan horse to smuggle a powerful chemotherapeutic drug inside tumor cells - increasing the drug's cancer-killing activity and reducing its toxic side effects." From the article: "The drug delivery vehicle used by U-M scientists is a manmade polymer molecule called a dendrimer. Less than five nanometers in diameter, these dendrimers are small enough to slip through tiny openings in cell membranes. One nanometer equals one-billionth of a meter, which means it would take 100,000 nanometers lined up side-by-side to equal the diameter of a human hair."

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  1. Yes, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    How do they get the horse so small?

    -- Jessica Simpson

  2. Huh? by tezbobobo · · Score: 5, Funny
    Trojans kill cancer

    Trojans infect my system

    Therefore Windows = Cancer

  3. Condescension in submission text by AEton · · Score: 4, Funny

    One nanometer equals one-billionth of a meter, which means it would take 100,000 nanometers lined up side-by-side to equal the diameter of a human hair.

    I'm sorry, but I just don't get it. How many of these suckers can I fit in a Library of Congress?

    --
    We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
  4. Re:Can't resist Trojan Horse joke... by multipartmixed · · Score: 4, Funny
    Funny, I always thoguht it was

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