Linda with unknown baby
If you take
a piece of iron and stick it in an alternating electrical field it will get
hot; If you had paid attention in high school physics class you would know why. It turns out that you can kill cancer cells
by injecting them with magnetizable clusters of nanoparticles – and then
turning on the a.c. (alternating current, not air conditioning!). Once the cancer cells reach a temperature of
1000 F, they croak. That’s
pretty cool, in more ways than one – heck, your normal body temperature is
already 98.60F. (I am
beginning to mis-understand this article already. Maybe 1000C?).
Well,
anyway, most cancers can’t just have little magnets directly injected into
them. What is needed is a “systemic”
approach – put them into the body, then somehow direct them to the cancer. Apparently some smart people at Oregon State
are on the verge of doing this, although how they do it (in mice, for now, of
course) is not explained. So I don’t
really know why I wrote this blog. Maybe
the notion of tiny hexagons of magnetic stuff being useful caught my old
paleomagnetic imagination.
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