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"Tiny magnetic discs just a millionth of a metre in diameter could be used to kill cancer cells, according to a new study.
"Laboratory tests found the so-called 'nanodiscs', around 60 billionths of a metre thick, could be used to disrupt the membranes of cancer cells, causing them to self-destruct.
"The results of the research appear in the journal Nature Materials.
"One of the study's authors, Dr Elena Rozhlova of Argonne National Laboratory in the United States, says subjecting the nanodiscs to a low magnetic field for around ten minutes was enough to destroy 90% of cancer cells in tests."
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/11/30/2757570.htm
"Laboratory tests found the so-called 'nanodiscs', around 60 billionths of a metre thick, could be used to disrupt the membranes of cancer cells, causing them to self-destruct.
"The results of the research appear in the journal Nature Materials.
"One of the study's authors, Dr Elena Rozhlova of Argonne National Laboratory in the United States, says subjecting the nanodiscs to a low magnetic field for around ten minutes was enough to destroy 90% of cancer cells in tests."
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/11/30/2757570.htm
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