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MIT Injects Nanotubes To Help Fight Cancer
CWmike writes to tell us that researchers at MIT have found a way to wrap nanotube sensors in DNA to detect the results of chemotherapy. The sensors are able to detect whether the drugs are attacking their targets or healthy cells. "Cancer researchers have long been trying to figure out a way to better deliver drugs to cancer cells without blasting surrounding cells as well. The Stanford researchers devised a way to use single-walled carbon nanotubes as targeted medicinal delivery vehicles. By better targeting the chemotherapy, less of the drug needs to be injected into the patient for cancer treatment. And that would reduce the side effects of chemotherapy treatment, such as nausea, hair loss, weight loss and fatigue."
I'm glad I'm a Pisces!
Now they just need sharks with frickin' laser beams strapped to their head!
I buy my saline kits from Chase Union Ltd in Movi, Michigan. The cost of a 1000 cc bag of sterile saline, drip tubing, sterile wipes (to wipe down your sac and all around) and catheter needle is with shipping around $25.
You can call them at +01 (248) 348-8191 and ask for item "MF 100" a scrotal inflation kit.
To do the saline, take the bag of saline and put in a microwave for about 5.5 minutes at low heat to warm to a bit above body temperature;about 100 degrees or so. Unwrap the outer plastic packaging and put the saline bag aside. Unwrap the drip tubing which comes with the kit and move the clamping system down toward the end opposite the vial type thing and CLOSE IT SHUT. Take the larger end of the drip tubing and uncap the protective cap........open the warmed bag of saline and remove the clear cap. Insert the drip tubing nozzle into the saline bag opening. Find a curtain rod, pot rack (which i have and use in the kitchen) shower rod or something elevated above you. Hang the bag of saline with the tubing attached and shut off. THEN VERY IMPORTANT. SQUEEZE SOME OF THE SALINE INTO THE VIAL ABOUT HALF WAY -THEN OPEN THE CLAMPING DEVICE AND BLEED ALL AIR OUT OF THE TUBING. YEAH YOU LOOSE A LITTLE BIT OF SALINE BUT THIS IS A MUST. YOU DON'T WANT ANY AIR OR AIR BUBBLES IN THE DRIP TUBING! REPLACE THE CAP ON THE WORKING END OF THE TUBING.
Before hand, while the bag of saline is warming either take a hot shower, or fill a basin or kitchen sink with very warm water sit in it for 4-7 minutes. The idea is to warm your ballsac skin up and let it get loose and hang.
When you have finished warming your sac, and you have the bag of saline (BLED FROM AIR), you are ready to grow.
With your sac still very warm use the wipes provided with the kit to wipe down your cock and ballsac. By the way, you will want an adjustable leather cock ring , nylon rope, or other type of removable cock/ball ring to wrap around cock and ballsac after inserting the catheter needle.
With you sac still warm and wiped down with antiseptics, sit in a chair with a towel underneath. Open the catheter needle don't get pansy here but with one hand, take the catheter needle and the teflon sheath that covers it and WITH THE OTHER HAND TAKE YOUR BALLSAC MOVING YOUR COCK OUT OF THE WAY AND DECIDE ON THE LOCATION OF THE INTENDED CATHETER NEEDLE. YOU NEED TO FOCUS ON THE AREA EITHER TO THE LEFT OR RIGHT SIDE OF YOUR BALLSAC AND UP CLOSE TO WHERE THE COCK CONNECTS. YOU PLACE THE CATHETER NEEDLE RIGHT BELOW THE COCK OR A LITTLE LOWER BUT TO ONE SIDE OR THE OTHER OF THE DARKER SKIN DIVIDING SKIN WHICH IS IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR SAC.
DON'T GET SQUEEMISH BECAUSE THIS DOES NOT HURT. BUT INSERT THE CATHETER STRAIGHT DOWN CAUTIOUSLY INTO YOUR SAC. MOVE YOUR TESTICLE ASIDE YOU ARE GOING TO GO INTO THE BALLSAC CAVITY NOT THE TESTICLE.
YOU WILL EXPERIENCE A PRICK SENSATION,THEN A POP SENSATION AS THE CATHETER NEEDLE PIERCES THE MUSCLE TISSUE OF THE SCROTUM.
KEEP PUSHING THE CATHETER NEEDLE IN. IF IT GOES IN AND YOU FEEL FROM THE OTHER/OPPOSITE SIDE OF YOUR BALLSAC THAT THE NEEDLE IS THERE, THEN STOP.
Pull out the needle itself leaving the teflon sheath inserted into you sac. Tie yourself (cock and balls) off with some sort of removable cock ring or rope or robe tie or whatever.
Sit down, don' t plan to move around too much for the next 30 minutes - hour. Have your beers/soft drinks or whatever already out of the fridge. You will want to stay idle and focused while you do this.
While sitting, and close to the hanging bag of saline and the drip tubing, remove the protective cover of the end of the drip tubing, connect the drip tubing to the catheter sheath in you sac. THEN START ADJUSTING THE CLAMPING DEVICE OPEN TO ALLOW SALINE DRIPPING TO APPEAR IN THE VIAL UP BY THE BAG OF SALINE. ADJUST FOR AN EVEN DRIP DRIP DRIP FLOW AND NOT A STEADY STREAM OF SALINE.
If the saline doesn't drip at first, try pulling the catheter sheath out a bit until you at first experience a small burning sensation;it goes awa
Didn't Carbon Nanotube been found to cause cancer?
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Resistance is futile.
After 30 years of reading science news, I'm not holding my breath for cancer. The facts are pretty much the same. If you get small cell lung cancer, you have a 90% chance of dying. John Wayne died of it, and if you get it, you will too.
Bone cancer, pancreatic cancer, all of those are pretty much fatal as well.
Others are not so fatal, but early treatment matters. Breast cancer is one. If you get a cancer that you can and do survive, you'll probably have lifelong health problems as a result, as much from the treatment as the cancer itself, and you won't ever really be completely cured.
This is my sig.
Bender: Yo, old guy. Why do we need to use those tiny microdroids? Can't you just shrink us?
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Oh, my, no. That would require extremely tiny atoms, and have you priced those lately? I'm not made of money. Leave me alone!
7 of 9 to patient "You are damaged. In order to repair you I need to inject you with modified nanoprobes from my bloodstream."
patient to 7 of 9 "Modified in what way?"
7 of 9 to patient "Your condition necessitated that I reprogram my cortical and ocular implants..."
patient to 7 of 9 "Implants!!?? Oh man baby I thought those were real! But it's still good!"
7 of 9 to patient "What are you referring to? Your statement lacks any consistent semantic structure. You seem to exhibiting some signs of delirium. Lay your head on its side. This injection requires that I use my assimilation tubul..."
patient to 7 of 9 "Tubule!!??? I wouldn't have thought from the looks of you! HA! Oh yeah! I usually don't swing that way but for you baby, inject me all you want!"
7 of 9 to patient "What? I do not understand. Obviously the delirium is progressing. I will now proceed..."
patient to 7 of 9 "Oh yeah!!! PROCEED! But only if I get to inject you with my tubule!"
jdb2
That the cure for cancer was a series of nanotubes?
old proverb
Disclaimer: didn't read TFA
How about: magnetizing nasty chemical-therapy drugs, arranging simple permanent magnets (say for skin cancers) or coils (for organ/bone cancers) to focus the magnetic fields and keep these drugs away from unnecessarily damaging healthy organs.
Seems too obvious, so guess it won't work...
Maybe iron in red blood cells would make them accumulate there too?
I don't get it. The headline says MIT, yet the summary refers to Stanford. Which one is it??? And no, I didn't RTFA.
"The Stanford researchers devised a way to use single-walled carbon nanotubes as targeted medicinal delivery vehicles."
TFA says both schools (as well as UCSD) are working on it...as the father of someone undergoing chemo, I say: Good for them.
They are looking for something that targets cancer cells? I thought I read that THC did that. THC sounds like it would be a lot more fun than silly nanotubes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjhT9282-Tw
That was my first thought when I read this.
My first thought was
"Wow, those crazy kids at MIT, whacking up nano-tubes. What will they try next, Wasabi enema's?"
And that would reduce the side effects of chemotherapy treatment, such as nausea, hair loss, weight loss and fatigue."
Or, the patient could use 100% safe marijuana. Hmmm... ingest a harmless plant that grows anywhere and everywhere, or get injected with electronics and DNA. Hmmm... Apparently nobody in the medical community has heard of the good 'ol "KISS" acronym.
Anybody read "nanoprobes" the first time and have to do a double take?
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Here's the big and aweful dirty secret. If you smoked for any length of time, and quit, your odds don't diminish significantly for getting lung cancer. You'll reduce your risk of heart attack.
I've heard this for a while, and it was in popsci a month or two ago.
Maybe with the ability to detect whether medicine or whatever therapy is curing treating and eliminating cancer, would give us a new testing method for trying cures against cancer, maybe by keeping cancerous things in pitrii dishes and keeping them alive a few days, or a week, we could test a whole range of therapies and medicines and treatments out to kill and eliminate it, and use this to detect whether or not the method is working, making for a faster way of testing treatments of cancer, to make a faster system, of doing it... Yeah...
and legalize pot and lets give americans jobs building 100% electric cars we can power with wind and solar.
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MIT people are just insanely brilliant. Who comes up with this stuff? The thought process is astounding. "Hey Bob, let's inject some nanotubes into cancer patients to study the effects of chemo." "Good idea Phil, i'll build the prototype on my lunch hour." "Thanks Bob, i'm going to go make some coffee that cures AIDS real quick. BRB."