Thursday, June 23, 2011

Extra Credit Particle Physic

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/06/treating-cancer

This article speaks is about cancer. There isn't really a cure for cancer, but there are treatment to killing the cancer cells.  One treatment that is used is chemotherapy. The problem with chemotherapy is that it kills all the cells even the bad cells. So two doctors have been trying to come up with a cure that will kill only the bad cells but not any of the good cells.  The two doctors thought about what happens when there is an injury, and all the cells come to that certain spot where there is an injury.  So these two doctors are developing a new drug that will go only to the cancer cells and kill, like our body would naturally do if we had an injury. They have have done experiment with it, but they need to test it out more just to be safe.

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