Cancer Nano Treatment Doesn't Kill Healthy Cells

Aug 03, 2005 14:01

According to the BBC, scientists have invented a treatment for cancer using fullerenes coated with a vitamin that only cancer cells have receptors for. The fullerines are heated with a laser to kill off only the cancer cells, leaving healthy cells intact. R's mother is undergoing radiation therapy for a tumor which was recently removed, and it's ( Read more... )

science, technology, nanotechnology, futurics

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temujin9 August 3 2005, 20:49:41 UTC
Hot shit! You're just full of good news and information today.

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