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"Mini-Factories" To Make Medicine Inside the Body

Posted by samzenpus on from the power-up dept.

Diggester writes "A group of scientists from MIT and the University of British Columbia have created 'mini-factories' that can be programmed to produce different types of proteins, and when implanted into living cells, it should distribute those proteins throughout the body. The scientists have initially triggered these 'factories' into action through the use of a laser light to relay the message of which proteins to produce."

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  1. Re:I wonder.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah then they could eat even more and get even fatter until they no longer fit through the doors at Wal Mart