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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. Re:Can't resist Trojan Horse joke... by Spock+the+Baptist · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ROTFLMKO!!!!!!!!

    Someone, heck several someones mark the above post Waaaaaaaaay up! Mark it hysterically funny!

    Two funny Bones waaay waaay up!

    --
    "Oh drat these computers, they're so naughty and so complex, I could pinch them." --Marvin the Martian
  2. Tried to deliver it.... by cbrichar · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    We already got one.
    Now go away before I taunt you a second time.

    (sorry)

  3. Re:Can't resist Trojan Horse joke... by typobox43 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... You didn't think it was funny, did you?

  4. Re:Can't resist Trojan Horse joke... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ROTFLMKO ?

    What the fuck does the K stand for?

  5. Re:Can't resist Trojan Horse joke... by Raistlin77 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Only thing I can think of would be Keister - an alternative to ass, butt, behind, booty, etc...