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Machine That "Uncooks Eggs" Used To Improve Cancer Treatment
hypnosec writes: An Australian invention that gained attention for being able to "unboil" an egg has now been put to use in the treatment of cancer. The device has boosted the potency of a common cancer treatment drug, carboplatino, as much as four-and-a-half-times. ABC.net reports: "Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer director Professor Ross McKinnon said it meant a huge advance for cancer treatment. 'It gives us the promise of offering an alternative where we have more drug being delivered to the tumour and less drug being delivered to the rest of the body,' he said. 'That means less side-effects for the patient and hopefully a much better effect in terms of tumour response. What this group are doing is an example of one drug but we would hope we could extend this to many drugs.' The device can process proteins more efficiently than current methods, with possible big ramifications for the pharmaceuticals industry.
oh, yeah. that's scrambled eggs or something like that.
Wonder if "untangling" proteins could help with Alzheimers and "Mad Cow?.
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about a year ago this was posted on /.
Are you sure? I remember that in January I saw that news about an egg's white "unboiling" machine that was interesting at most but didn't seem to have any useful purpose at the time. Are you saying that this machine was used for cancer prior been used to "un"make breakfast?
Elok
There are a lot of medical interventions that are very nice on paper but useless in practice because of the difficulty of delivering something fragile to a specific point in the body. This super-vesicles seem to be still too limited to address this problem perfectly but they seem like a big step forward, a couple of generations later this could very well make gene-therapy, siRNA inhibition, cell-specific drug therapies, etc. practical enough to be used as therapy.
Feed it to a chicken.
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
But. My only use of poetic license has been with tense, not an attempt at neologism.
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There is nothing wrong with Cromulency if used correctly.
Don't be apathetic. Procrastinate!
Gentleman (and I use the term loosely) - the information you seek is in the fucking summary.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
There is nothing wrong with Cromulency if used correctly.
No there's'nt any problem I see with re-tensing and such, only with the misplaced capital letter on "Cromulency".
Lipid formulations of cancer drugs already exist, notably liposomal doxorubicin. Usually these result in better intracellular delivery and less toxicity. The problem is that making stable lipid formulations is quite hard and the resulting product quite expensive. If this, apparently simple, method can create liposomal carboplatin (or whatever other drug), it could allow cheaper and more diverse liposomal anti-cancer drugs. That would be nice. Especially carboplatiin (and cisplatin) are extremely important for many, many different chemotherapy protocols.
> there's'nt
Your second apostrophe should be between the "n" and the "t".
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.