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by onetimeuse92304 907 days ago
We are currently using radiation therapy which focuses gamma rays on a piece of tissue with cancer cells to kill it.

If you can do the same but instead of gamma rays use infrared, even if it kills indiscriminately, that should still be a net positive, don't you think?

And the main benefit here is that you can get these molecules into specific cells which in theory should allow killing cells based on some chemical characteristic.