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by xkcd-sucks
901 days ago
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> whole-molecule vibration
Heating it up > Light-induced
with IR light (IR penetrates tissue much better than visible/UV and it's cheaper than microwaves/RF) > can rupture melanoma cells’ membrane
you can cook cancer to death, surprise. The big deal is not cooking everything else, ~~here accomplished with a targeted sensitizer dye that localizes to just those cells~~ Nope, no targeting at all. The advance here is just a new class of IR absorbing dyes that have some cool chemical properties that lend themselves particularly well to disrupting lipid membranes. The reason it's billed as a cancer treatment is because the authors get funding from NIH not NSF, more or less |
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