Scientists Deliver Bee Toxin To Tumors Via "Nanobees"

ScienceDaily is reporting that Washington University School of Medicine researchers have found a way to deliver bee toxin to tumors using nano-spheres they call "nanobees." The results in mice showed a cessation of growth or even shrinkage of tumors while the surrounding tissue was protected from the toxin. "The core of the nanobees is composed of perfluorocarbon, an inert compound used in artificial blood. The research group developed perfluorocarbon nanoparticles several years ago and have been studying their use in various medical applications, including diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis and cancer. About six millionths of an inch in diameter, the nanoparticles are large enough to carry thousands of active compounds, yet small enough to pass readily through the bloodstream and to attach to cell membranes."

beez

[Conditioner]

are they black and yellow, and do they buzz ?

Nano this!

[R2.0]

Can somebody whip up a Greasemonkey script that replaces the word or prefix "nano" with "really fucking small"? It would be a service to your fellow slashdotter.

I see it coming

[Maniacal]

Yeah, sure. This will work fine and dandy until some hop on a cargo ship and the US is slowly but surely colonized by Africanized Nanobees. Don't say I didn't warn you

Re:Holy dupes batman

[Anonymous Coward]

Boo hoo.

Nobody likes people who cry and whine over trivial mistakes that don't really matter.

Also, you missed an apostrophe.

Re:Holy dupes batman

[eln]

I don't get it, if you're trying to compliment the editors on the fact that only half the articles are dupes these days, rather than the more historically typical 75 or 80%, why do you seem so angry about it?

Re:Nano this!

[Hognoxious]

Seconded. It's exponentially annoying.

Re:Six millionths of an inch

[TheRaven64]

Exactly. Inches? What kind of crazy units are they using? Why not convert it to something easy to understand, like Slashdot International Units. For reference, six millionths of an inch is approximately 41.4 zepto light-fortnights.

Re:Six millionths of an inch

[Urza9814]

Why not "five trillionths of a feet" then?

Because there is no such thing as 'a feet'. "Five trillionths of a foot" would be entirely acceptable though. In fact, that would work quite well, because you could look down at your shoe and say 'hmm, about five trillionths of that...' instead of having to try to compare it to that bone in your finger or the graphite in your pencil.

And yes, for those of you who don't get it, this post is entirely sarcastic.

Re:Nano this!

[interkin3tic]

Actually I take that footnote back, the NIH just awarded me a $12 million grant to study whether or not grant-writing agencies award more grants to grants that have nano stuck in there, based on that post.

Re:Holy dupes batman

[Anonymous Coward]

It's Slashdot's management's cost reduction plan. You see, they have their editors post a story two or three times. We all comment on them again and in the meantime, Slashdot get's the ad revenue! See?

The new plan will be they run a bunch of articles in the morning and the morning folks comment on those, then they run the same articles in the afternoon and the afternoon folks comment on those - kinda like how the History Channel does their programming in the middle of the week.

Now, the night folks get tomorrows articles first and the morning folks think they're new - and back we go again. I think it fucking brilliant, if you ask me.

Up next will be posting of highly controversial articles. Some in the queue:

1. The linkage between Mac use and homosexuality.
2. Windows IS really better than Mac.
3. The RiAA has been wrongfully condemned - how they will get us out of this economic mess.
4. Bush was THE greatest technology President.
5. The creation of Linux was the last ditch effort of the KGB to bring back the Soviet Empire.

There's more, but I don't want to tip off the Slashdot management as to who their leak is.

Re:Nano this!

[Shikaku]

Done. Just tell your friends about how Shikaku made it for you.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/56790 [userscripts.org]

Re:Holy dupes batman

[selven]

By definition, only half of articles can be duplicates. If you go beyond that, they become "trips".

Re:Nano this!

[fightinfilipino]

oh great, now how am i supposed to explain to people why they see iPod reallyfuckingsmalls for sale at the Apple store?