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Healing Wounds With Diamonds
A team at Northwestern University, led by Dean Ho, has discovered that nanodiamonds are a wound's best friend. Insulin is very attracted to nanodiamonds and in addition to regulating blood sugar, insulin can accelerate the healing process and stave off infection in wound sites. Since the tiny diamond can be easily placed in a wound without causing further damage, this is an excellent way to get an increased amount of insulin there as well. From the article, "A substantial amount of insulin can be loaded onto the nanodiamonds, which have a high surface area. The nanodiamond-insulin clusters, by releasing insulin in alkaline wound areas, could accelerate the healing process and decrease the incidence of infection. Ho says this ability to release therapeutics from the nanodiamonds on demand represents an exciting strategy towards enhancing the specificity of wound treatment."
I'm sure there's a darn funny off color joke in there about diamonds being a womans best friend... but I'm going to not open up any wounds.
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I've also heard that bodybuilders use insulin to lower their body fat and make them look leaner. Insulin sounds like a pretty sweet drug, and since it doesn't get you high, I think I should be able to get it without a prescription. And yet - I can't.
The article leaves a lot to be desired. Can anyone explain why it is that insulin's attracted to diamonds, or more specifically, nanodiamonds?
Apart from the "insulin = women" comments we're sure to get, I'm seriously wondering why.
In other news...Debeers has just entered the Health care industry.
The barack obama solution to lowering costs is to... increase the enrollment by giving uninsured (mostly illegal immigrants) "free" healthcare. WTF?
Good luck getting your HMO to cover diamonds.
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Yay! Now when your GF wants a diamond all she has to is fall and scrape a knee...
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So in the future, we'll all have superhuman healing abilities and sparkle like our skin is covered in millions of diamonds?
Stephanie Meyer: modern day prophet.
Everyone knows you need a Diamond worth 100gp to raise dead. So how is this news?
At last, I can bling out my internal wounds!
Blood Diamonds
The power of healing crystals finally comes true. Far out.
Diamonds often help to heal love's wounds as well.
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I can imagine this being used on band-aids.
How easy is it to make nano-diamonds anyways? I'm wondering if there's a cheap way to make graphite on the small scale to order themselves like a diamond for at least a short period of time.
I read TFA and all I got was this lousy cookie
Big Pharma will price this so high that people that could really benefit from this will only be the rich.
First stories in the Onion come true, now South Park's cure for AIDS?
Crazy world.
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Imagine what kind of Health insurance you would have to get for diamond treatment. You would have premiums of 10,000.00 a month.
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Of course when we all have to go to Government run health care like Canada, we will have to wait in line for 3months for wound treatment and instead of nano-diamonds, we will have to make do with cubic zirconium dust covered in aspirin.
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Thanks you scientists! It will end up being more effective to pray to Jesus to heal your wounds.
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a significant increase in the number of rappers with oral infections.
You can actually smear diamonds on your face! And it's only $400 a tub! That's, like, what, like, a million diamonds for $400? A million bleeping diamonds!
Make you look nice, too: http://the-op.com/images/episode/202/tobias-glitter_sm.jpg
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Using a sufficiently large diamond, the emotional pain caused by one's infidelity discovered by one's wife can be cured. And, given the volatility of said wife, it can simultaneously work to prevent the physical pain of being hit with a lamp.
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She'll pretty much have to
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So if the point is to attract more insulin to the area using nano-diamonds, why not skip the whole diamond step and create an insulin oitment or topical application that essentially does the same thing?
Makes my doodie twinkle !
is the diamond antibiotic ointment.
Africa rejoice, a new cure for wounds have been found!
Love many, trust a few, do harm to none.
Once the healing process was complete, how would one get these nano diamonds out of oneself? Do they remain in your skin attracting clusters of insulin in perpetuity? What happens when they enter your blood stream and travel to various organs?
perhaps this explains the vampire skin in Twilight?
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diamonds in/on there skin stop them burning up in the sun....
Just remembered me that: "Diamonds are forever!" and ever! Imagine in a nuclear holocaust: Diamonds will survive...
I'm sure I can throw a rock and hit at least a dozen women who will swear on a stack of bibles that diamonds are capable of healing any and all wounds!
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
Kind of reminds me of colloidal silver, a common antibacterial agent before antibiotics became common.
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"A dressing of diamond" - it's a poem by a crazy French woman, who was jailed for anarchist agitation IIRC and wound up dying in jail. She had probably never thought of this; kind of sad.
that there is no better way to administer insulin to a wound.
Nano-anything is likely to have side-effects. After all, the hourly death rates and admissions to ERs is related to the concentration of sub-micron particulates in the air.
...if you have a Cleric with a 5th-level spell slot open.
when I first glanced at the title I read it as "Healing wounds with dynamite".
Or else are quite young. Pg 429-430 detail mandatory counseling to get the elderly to kill themselves. Other places tell of how the handicapped will be denied treatment, as will people with chronic illnesses. This program is only good as long as you are young and healthy. After that, they come for you. As to nano-diamonds, they are indeed 'easily' creatable synthetically.
To the phrase: Blood Diamond Thank you, thank you... I'll be here all night
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I cannot help wonder what happens if these diamond particles get into your blood flow though. Even though they are stated to be "nano-size", any chance they might get stuck in the nephrons in the kidneys, or capillary blood vessels around the body? I mean, usually the stuff you get into your blood stream are macro-mo
Neglecting MMORPG inflation (bread = 1 gp rather than 1 copper), this morning gold is $928/ounce. IIRC, in original D&D, a gold piece was 1/10 a pound, yielding a value of about $1484.
A 100gp diamond is thus a $148,400.00 diamond.
Checking google, you can get a high quality 7+ carat diamond for about $150k. I presume the gods to whom this is a sacrifice only want high quality diamonds.
So the conclusion is a raise dead spell is "worth" about $150,000 just for the ingredients alone.
Just one more costly item as to why health care spending continues to go up -- new treatments and cures.
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