Nanotech Cancer-Fighting Robots
Caltech researchers are exploring ways of using nanotech robots to disable cancerous genes.
"These small nanoparticle robots enter a patient's blood stream and then get to work on the tumors – this is where they can deliver therapy that in some cases can turn off the cancer gene," writes Product Reviews' Peter Chubb.
"Interfering RNAs are a new type of therapy that attack cancers and other diseases at the genetic level; its discovery in 1998 won Andrew Fine and Craig Mello the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine," writes InventorSpot's T Goodman. "But the Caltech researchers were the first to create the right nanobot to deliver the siRNAs and they were able to inject the drug-filled nanobots directly into the patients' bloodstreams."
"The researchers established that the nano-therapy deactivated the protein ribonucleotide reductase," writes TheMedGuru's Neha Jindal.
More here from Tonic … more here from Nature News … and the press release is here.