| Nano Technology may in fact hold the keys to | | | | of a DNA strand. The nano tubes will be heated |
| fighting many different types of cancer in the | | | | up using near infrared light in a laser beam, which |
| human bio-system. The technologies are so | | | | takes about two-minutes. The cancerous cells are |
| promising we may see survival rates skyrocket, | | | | quickly destroyed. This research is only in the |
| thus everyone can live strong in the upcoming | | | | preliminary stages but should be solved within the |
| decade. Nano Tubes use in fighting cancer is | | | | coming decade. |
| indeed, a unique process it works by inserting tiny | | | | The nano tubes will be coated with a vitamin |
| microscopic carbon synthetic rods into the body | | | | called folate, which is found in cancerous cells, but |
| to deliver the cancer treatment to the exact spot | | | | does not normally bind with healthy cells. Once |
| needed. By directly aiming the rods into the | | | | these tubes touch the cancerous area they |
| cancer cells, the healthy tissue is saved. | | | | quickly bind and then are electrified with near |
| This research is quite promising and is being | | | | infrared laser light, killing the cells. Nano Tube |
| researched by Stanford University. Chemotherapy | | | | technologies are quickly coming of age and once |
| seems to becoming a thing of the past. That is | | | | they are available this process should be relatively |
| the theory that nuking the body and seeing which | | | | easy to use. One cancer already targeted is |
| dies first the cancer or the person. Even when | | | | Lymphoma and tests of the process are being |
| the human survives it is left with huge amounts | | | | done on mice with good results. There are other |
| of destroyed tissue, which was not cancerous. | | | | cancers it might work on well to and have been |
| When you see a person who is using | | | | suggested. For instance Ovarian Cancers, Cervical |
| chemotherapy to treat the cancer you see their | | | | Cancer and others Nano Technology and |
| hair fallout, but that is only one of many dire and | | | | biomedical processes are coming of age as we |
| serious side effects. | | | | speak. |
| These nanotubes are so small they are the width | | | | |