Comments on: Nanotechnology to Take On cancer https://blog.speculist.com/healthmedicine/nanotechnology.html Live to see it. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Stephen Gordon https://blog.speculist.com/healthmedicine/nanotechnology.html#comment-29 Stephen Gordon Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:23:27 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=53#comment-29 The gold nanoshells development sounds particularly promising.

The hope is that this sort of directed radiation therapy would not sicken the patient the way current therapies do now, while being more effective. The amount of radiation involved would be a fraction of what is used now.

The exciting part is that this isn’t spooky nanotech that is decades away. This could be used in practice within a couple of years.

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