Fantastic Voyage Into the Heart

Roland Piquepaille writes "According to the Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI), researchers from the Harvard Medical School have written a sequel to 'Fantastic voyage,' the 1966 sci-fi movie. By injecting self-assembling peptide nanofibers loaded with pro-survival factors into rats, they've showed that the animals could be protected from heart failures. So far, the researchers have not extended their experiments to humans."

Comments

Accuracy

[XPulga]

Fantastic Voyage is originally a book by Asimov, who already wrote a sequel (Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain). The link between TFA and Asimov's novel is faint, if not null. People with interest in Medical research shouldn't be getting their feeds from ZD Net. And while we're at it, the past participle of show is shown.

Re:Is there an English translation?

[TapTapTheChisler]

It is a cellular peptide cake (with mint frosting)

Therapeutic Prions?

[adavies42]

I'm too lazy to read the actual study results, and TFA doesn't say, but "self-assembling peptide nanofibers" sound an awful lot like prions to me. Given all the work that's been done on using viruses for genetic engineering, I suppose prion-based therapy was bound to come along eventually.