Posted on 08/25/2010 8:37:26 AM PDT by Freeport
Scientists in Israel have come up with a way to target cancer without damaging healthy cells. Two researchers at Tel Aviv University developed a nano-vehicle that carries tiny particles of chemotherapy drugs through the body. The drugs are released when the nano-vehicle comes into direct contact with cancer cells.
Dr. Dan Peer of Tel Aviv University's Department of Cell Research and Immunology and the Center for Nano Science and Nano Technology and Professor Rimona Margalit of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology invented the tumor-targeting device.
"The vehicle is very similar to a cluster bomb," explains Peer.
A sugar molecule recognized by many cancer cell receptors is used to create the outer coating of the cluster. The microscopic nano-device is wrapped in this sugary coating -- which serves as a trojan -- tricking the cancer cells.
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Those reseachers in Israel have been coming up with some fantastic medical news.
Israelis creating a new cluster bomb. I love it.
Meanwhile, Mullah Obama is trying to destroy Israel with the aid and support of RATs in Congress and Hitlery.
will raquel welch be on board this nano-sub?
Can’t wait for a rerun of Obozo’s Yapping about Islamic Achievements!!
What an asshat.
It is Obama who will be destroyed before Israel is.
“Islamic medicine” is a contradiction in terms.
The closest thing they have to “medicine” is live, slow, decapitations, without anaesthesia, and with rusty implements.
They also have fully automated amputation technology, usually involving explosives and cell phones.
Only 12 million Jews in the entire world and they continue to make fantastic advances in medicine.
Meanwhile, the 1.5 billion musims around the world are too busy exploring new ways to cut off hands, sever spinal cords and stone women too death to waste time on this kind of research.
After all - these medical advances are anti-Islamic because they keep infidels alive.
I can not understand why these people hate America.
Treatment in the US is probably at least ten to twenty years away but this sounds promising. I've read that tumors are actually the result of cancerous stem cells so even if the tumor itself is blasted unless the deviated stem cells are targeted new ones will just form.
That is so true.
I am reminded of the summer of the year 2000 when I stood on a Balcony in Cocoa Beach at 10:00PM and watched the whole world light up as The Space Shuttle did a Magnificent Night Launch To The International Space Station. I had spent the afternoon at the Kennedy Space center, and in those heady, lax-security days before 9/11/01, had actually TOURED the Assembly Building and saw the Destiny Lab, which is America’s Contribution to the ISS. I was so full of hope and elation, that science, learning and progress would be replacing war, fear, and stupidity in our world.
That was before some 8th Century Misogynist Death-Cultists plunged our Beautiful Nation back into the Dark Ages.
How long to market?? // Same same work @ Texas Med Center but will take years to market with backlog of FDA. Suggest TMC go to another (business friendly) country to start trials/treaments for those in need and able to travel.
And what have Palestinian scientists in the Gaza Strip come up with lately?
And what have Palestinian scientists in the Gaza Strip come up with lately?
While conspiring over a Ramadan dinner, ostensibly cooked over camel dung..
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