This Is the Future of the Fight Against Cancer

Look close. You may be staring at the end of cancer. Those tiny black dots are nanobots delivering a lethal blow to a cancerous cell, effectively killing it. The first trial on humans has been a success, with no side-effects:

It sneaks in, evades the immune system, delivers the siRNA, and the disassembled components exit out.

Those are the words of Mark Davis, head of the research team that created the nanobot anti-cancer army at the California Institute of Technology. According to a study to be published in Nature, Davis' team has discovered a clean, safe way to deliver RNAi sequences to cancerous cells. RNAi (Ribonucleic acid interference) is a technique that attacks specific genes in malign cells, disabling functions inside and killing them.

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The_Penguin said:

This Is the Future of the Fight Against Cancer - Nanobots - Gizmodo

If this is the beginning of the end of cancer, then hell, when do we off just about every other disease?

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Harry Guerrilla said:

****ing awesome, question though.

How long are the trials until it becomes common usage?
How long until it hits the market?

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