In First Successful Human Trial, Nanotech Robots Deploy Cancer-Fighting RNA
From the article:
"RNAi, also known as "gene silencing," is a cellular mechanism that blocks the production of proteins, and has tantalized doctors as a potential medicine for a number of years now. However, by placing payloads of RNA in a polymer nanobot, scientists have finally shown that this technique can work against tumors in human patients.
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Plus, since RNAi can work against any transcription, RNAi nanobots could potentially disable both DNA viruses, like smallox, and RNA viruses, like SARS."
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- My name is Kaya Shah, and I grew up in Knoxville, TN, a city nestled in a valley of the Smokey Mountains. I moved to Boston to study physics and planetary science at MIT. After graduating, I researched pediatric HIV and TB diagnostics with the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief at the Harvard School of Public Health. I received my M.D. from Loyola Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago. While at Stritch, I participated in a service trip to Fond-des-blancs, Haiti, six months after the 2010 earthquake. I am currently a resident in the anesthesiology residency program at Loyola University Medical Center. I remain interested in medical mission trips.
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