Better Than Phelps: Hot, Golden, Swimming Nanowires Zap Cancer
Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 18:28
in Biology & Nature
A new, innovative cancer treatment may be hotter, covered in more gold, and even be a better swimmer than Michael Phelps. Scientists at the University of Idaho are engineering multifunctional and dynamic nanowires coated in gold that swim through the bloodstream and attach to specific cancerous cells. Then, lectromagnetic fields heats the nanowires, destroying the cancerous cells.
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