Paul Stanway Jr
07-27-2005, 07:35 PM
Nanotech Moves Closer to Cure
By Howard Lovy
When Dr. James Baker returned from the first Gulf War in 1991, his University of Michigan colleagues must have assumed the medical researcher's head had sustained a direct Scud missile hit. The good doctor came home with some pretty wacky ideas.
Here was one of them: Instead of using live viruses to destroy diseased cells, why not send in man-made, nanoscale molecules with tiny tendrils that scientists could engineer to battle specific types of cancers?
Read more at http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,68195,00.html?tw=rss.TEK
By Howard Lovy
When Dr. James Baker returned from the first Gulf War in 1991, his University of Michigan colleagues must have assumed the medical researcher's head had sustained a direct Scud missile hit. The good doctor came home with some pretty wacky ideas.
Here was one of them: Instead of using live viruses to destroy diseased cells, why not send in man-made, nanoscale molecules with tiny tendrils that scientists could engineer to battle specific types of cancers?
Read more at http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,68195,00.html?tw=rss.TEK