Guest guest Posted August 16, 2009 Report Share Posted August 16, 2009 I'm sure I read somewhere that beekeepers, because they get stung by bees often, tend to have lower incidence of cancer. In the article they write: ....the researchers also developed a more specific method for making sure " nanobees " go to tumors and not healthy tissue by loading the " nanobees " with additional components. When they added a targeting agent that was attracted to growing blood vessels around tumors, the " nanobees " were guided to precancerous skin lesions that were rapidly increasing their blood supply. I believe we will see more of this kind of targeted nano technology in the near future. It reminds me of IPT, insulin potentiation therapy where the low dose chemo is bound to the insulin so it goes directly to cancer cells. It makes a lot of sense to use a targetted low dose approach, unlike now where we see high doses of chemo destroying both cancer cells and healthy cells. And unless cancer is particularly aggressive and fast growing chemo doesn't work very well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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