Nanomedicine Kills Brain Cancer Cells

destinyland writes "Scientists from the University of Chicago and the US Department of Energy have developed the first nanoparticles that seek out and destroy GMB brain cancer cells. Nanoparticles killed up to 80% of the brain cancer cells after just five minutes of exposure to white light, showing the promise of nanomedicine — highly-specific intervention at the molecular scale. Because nanomedicine could repair brain cells or damaged nerve and muscle tissue, the NIH has established eight Nanomedicine Development Centers around the country for their Nanomedicine Roadmap Initiative. Researchers have also used gold nanospheres to search out and 'cook' skin cancer cells with light — 'It's basically like putting a cancer cell in hot water and boiling it to death,' says one researcher. And the NIH Roadmap ultimately predicts 'novel tiny sensors ... that search for, and destroy, infectious agents.'"

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Side effects

[Tubal-Cain]

Nanoparticles killed up to 80% of the brain cancer cells after just five minutes of exposure to white light

Side effects may include death of 80% of non-cancer cells.

Re:Side effects

[Chris Burke]

Here you go.

Re:Wish

[Trepidity]

It's starting to look more and more like it's going to be my generations plastic.

I, too, look forward to the giant raft of entangled nanoparticles polluting the middle of the Pacific.

Re:Don't expect too much from this treatment

[hofmny]

I don't see the problem really. All you need to do is collide some anti-matter with normal matter, use the energy to warp space time, and use the curvature to bend light particles to the specific areas of the brain.

You such a pessimist :P

Re:Exploit

[Kratisto]

I've been taught to find this offensive, treasonous, and politically incorrect.