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This Tiny Submarine Cruises Inside A Stomach To Deliver Drugs (No Raquel Welch)
NPR ^ | January 29, 2017 | MADELINE K. SOFIA

Posted on 01/30/2017 12:03:52 PM PST by PJ-Comix

A tiny self-propelled drug-delivery device might someday make taking antibiotics safer and more efficient. Think of it as a tiny submarine scooting around inside your stomach, fueled by the acid there.

Oral antibiotics are commonly prescribed life-saving drugs. Once an antibiotic is swallowed, it takes a trip to the stomach, where there's lots of acid. That stomach acid can break chemical bonds in the antibiotic and deactivate it.

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: health; medicine
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Sorry but I fail to be impressed by any tiny submarine travelling inside the body if Raquel Welch is NOT aboard.
1 posted on 01/30/2017 12:03:52 PM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

Isaac Asimov getting a royalty?


2 posted on 01/30/2017 12:04:43 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: PJ-Comix

No Dennis Quaide either?.............


3 posted on 01/30/2017 12:05:40 PM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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To: TigerClaws

He’s dead, Jim................


4 posted on 01/30/2017 12:06:01 PM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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I can still see the team pulling whatever those things were off Raquel Welch!


5 posted on 01/30/2017 12:09:47 PM PST by scripter
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To: PJ-Comix

Didn’t we see this with Dennis Quaid in Inner Space?


6 posted on 01/30/2017 12:10:55 PM PST by rey
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To: scripter

Antibodies.


7 posted on 01/30/2017 12:14:20 PM PST by rightwingcrazy
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(No Raquel Welch)

YES Raquel Welch.


8 posted on 01/30/2017 12:15:19 PM PST by Yo-Yo ( Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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"A tiny, self-propelled submarine drug-delivery service inside the body....."

Does it have a "no tipping" policy?

Leni

9 posted on 01/30/2017 12:17:59 PM PST by MinuteGal (GO TRUMP !!!.......GO PENCE !!!)
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Sorry but I fail to be impressed by any tiny submarine travelling inside the body if Raquel Welch is NOT aboard.

Sterling Archer was saddened as well.

10 posted on 01/30/2017 12:20:02 PM PST by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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Antibodies.

Yeah, they were so anti-body that they attacked Raquel Welch's body.

11 posted on 01/30/2017 12:20:15 PM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: Yo-Yo; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna; PROCON

She doesn’t move her shoulders (but then who’s looking at shoulders?).


12 posted on 01/30/2017 12:20:28 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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Isaac Asimov getting a royalty?

To my surprise, I discover that Isaac Asimov did not write the story behind the movie Fantastic Voyage. The movie was based on a story by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby. Asimov wrote a novelization of the movie.

From Wikipedia:

Bantam Books obtained the rights for a paperback novelization based on the screenplay and approached Isaac Asimov to write it. Because the novelization was released six months before the movie, many people mistakenly believed the film was based on Asimov's book.

13 posted on 01/30/2017 12:21:23 PM PST by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: Larry Lucido

Correction: She doesn’t swing her arms.


14 posted on 01/30/2017 12:21:35 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To be really safe from stomach acid they should wrap it in the skin of a tapeworm. Those critters seem to be just fine splashing around in acid.


15 posted on 01/30/2017 12:22:14 PM PST by Buttons12
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Eggs-actly. What’s the point without the main course? ;-) I’m sure somone will have some recent pics for display purposes.


16 posted on 01/30/2017 12:25:53 PM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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I stand corrected!

Always thought Asimov wrote the original story. I had the book he did based on it as a kid.

Thanks for the info, sir.


17 posted on 01/30/2017 12:30:15 PM PST by TigerClaws
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Call Kenny Loggins — looks like Archer is in the “danger zone”.


18 posted on 01/30/2017 12:31:51 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: rightwingcrazy

Ah, yes. antibodies. Lucky antibodies. Thanks! :-)


19 posted on 01/30/2017 1:34:43 PM PST by scripter
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To: TigerClaws
I too had the book, and read it many times. Fifty years ago.

This passage, in particular, is one which I remember very clearly, because it influenced my path in life:

"Have you ever seen a photograph enlarged, Mr. Grant? Or reduced to microfilm size?"

"Of course."

"Without theory, then, I tell you that the same process can be used on three-dimensional objects; even on a man. We are miniaturized, not as literal objects, but as images; as three-dimensional images manipulated from outside the universe of space-time."

Grant smiled. "Now, teacher, those are just words."

"Yes, but you don't want theory, do you?"

I remember it so clearly that I am able to type a few words from it into Google, and immediately see the passage in the Google Books copy of the original book.
20 posted on 01/30/2017 1:45:48 PM PST by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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