HI friends here is great news for the people affected with cancer .The next big thing in cancer treatment may be bigger, covered with gold, and even be a better swimmer than recent Olympic champion 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. Once there, an electromagnetic field heats the nanowires, which destroys the targeted cells. Cancer is a dangerous enemy because radiation and chemical treatments cause a lot of side effects. We can’t avoid side effects 100 percent, but these nanowires will minimize the damage to healthy cells. The technology involves many steps requiring lots of continuing research, but each of the basic concepts already have been proven in laboratory tests. The research team has already created nanowires that can “swim” to their targets and heat up when exposed to low frequency electromagnetic fields, which are not harmful to human body. The next step is to make them biocompatible, meaning safe to introduce to the human body, and able to seek out specific cancer cells. They believe the gold plating will take care of the biocompatibility. If not, they have several polymers in mind that they believe would work. So at least there is some good news for the cancer affected people. This is a good step forward in the research of cancer treatment. If this works out well it must be great news. Let us pray it does.
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