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Submitted by maheshee11 5/30/2008
This, from a blog powered by MIT, is a great example of understatement in technology. On the surface, the term “nanoparticles” does not bring forth feelings of excitement or even interest. They are very small — we know that — and they don’t have any influence over any social media user’s life.
What if this story had something to do with an eventual cure for cancer? More interesting, isn’t it. That is the case — this breakthrough may seem very insignificant in a virtual world where the RIAA, Barack Obama, and Apple makes the rules (and the front page) but if a cure for cancer is discovered in the near future, it will probably be at least in part brought about by this new technology.
Much more compelling when you look at it like that.
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Particles that cross a cell’s membrane usually don’t get very far. The membrane recognizes them as foreign objects and closes them off in little pockets. But now, scientists at MIT have created coated nanoparticles that can slip inside a cell without triggering its self-protective mechanism.
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