17-Year-Old Girl Creates Nanoparticle That Kills Cancer, Wins $100,000

[I'm Old Greg]

not sure if this has been brought up?

http://www.geekosystem.com/17-yo-cancer-nanoparticle/


17-Year-Old Girl Creates Nanoparticle That Kills Cancer, Wins $100,000

 

[raybia]

Wow, what an accomplishment. Too bad it will go on the shelf next to the cure for AIDS, the common cold, heart disease, etc.

 

[SuperFerret]

This seems worrisome actually. It kills cancer cells, but how does it tell the difference between cancer cells and normal cells, considering that "cancer" is basically a broad range of intracellular DNA ****-ups.

Same with things like "the common cold" and "heart disease", you can't cure cancer because there's not one cause or type of cancer.

 

[chaseter]

If it reads RNA then I do believe it could differentiate between a healthy cell and a cancerous cell. Cancerous cells are nothing more than unregulated cell reproduction...a tiny misreading in transcription.

 

[Mike_D202]

These stories are interesting, but then we never hear anything about it again.

Damn you pharmaceutical companies!