New Nanoparticle Could Provide Simple Early Diagnosis Of Many Diseases

Researchers have created a new nanoparticle that could someday act as a virtually all-purpose diagnostic tool to detect many inflammatory diseases in their earliest stages, including heart disease, Alzheimer's, and arthritis. The specially-designed nanoparticles seek out hydrogen peroxide (thought to be overproduced in trace amounts in the early stages of most diseases that involve some sort of chronic inflammation in the body), and emit light when they encounter it.

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That would utterly rock - no more ineffective drugs with side effects.

This of course raises the question of whether the drug companies that benefit from the current crop of drugs will stand for this. I imagine the smart ones are already working on nanoparticle based drug solutions. But truly effective drugs might not be so good for the bottom line! Nahhhh, no one would be that evil, riiiiiight?