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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.'"
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.
Why bother with using advanced technology like this when the school system already does that? :)
Sigs are too short to say anything truly profound so read the above post instead.
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.
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Wish they had things like this when my wife was diagnosed with a glioblastoma multiforme four years ago. One afternoon, six weeks after diagnosis, she said she was sleepy. We said "I love you" and shared a kiss before she fell asleep. Later that afternoon, swelling around the tumor herniated her brain stem. She never woke up and died in my arms one week later. Twenty years together. I miss her every day and I don't think I'll ever recover.
Love the people in your life like there's no tomorrow. (We were lucky.)
P.S. For you Googlers, the more common abbreviation is GBM.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
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.
:P
You such a pessimist
You don't need to resect. You can access as with a Stereotactic biopsy, using a computer and (previously done) MRI scans to generate a 3-D image of the brain mapped to the patient's head during surgery to guide instrumentation. This allows the surgeon to maneuver around blood vessels (bleeding being the most immediate threat) and such. Radioactive disks can be inserted and removed like this as well.
I believe the system used for my wife's biopsy was accurate to 0.4 mm. They only drilled a "small" (surgeon's words) 5/8 inch hole in her head, behind the right ear, for access. When done, it was patched up and you couldn't tell anything had been done after the incision healed.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
The major advantage of proton treatment over conventional radiation, however, is that the energy distribution of protons can be directed and deposited in tissue volumes designated by the physicians-in a three-dimensional pattern from each beam used.
and Antimatter Therapy:
While an x-ray beam deposits energy along its entire path through the body, a beam of charged particles does damage only after electrical interactions have slowed it sufficiently to create a high chance of collision with atomic nuclei. This means that proton beams deposit most of their energy over a focused area, such as a collection of tumour cells, in the last millimetre of their journey.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that no one can predict one's reaction to mortality, whether one's own or someone else's. Some can pick up and go on, others can't, and there's no way to tell who is wired which way, until the reality hits.
Hopefully, you can come to understand this before you need others to understand this of you.
Actually, another approach to this is to activate the particles is by way of low-level and non-invasive radio frequency energy.
This man was the one that started a lot of the research into this kind of stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kanzius
As a cancer survivor myself, and somebody that has undergone Chemo, I am very intrigued and hopeful about this type of research. Lets hope it all pans out as we all hope.
I've been taught to find this offensive, treasonous, and politically incorrect.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.