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Magnetic discs kill cancer cells?

Posted by shruthi on Sunday, December 6, 2009


Magnetic discs kill cancer cells?
TINY magnetic discs just a millionth of a metre in diameter could be used to used to kill cancer cells, according to a study.


Laboratory tests found the so-called 'nanodiscs", around 60 billionths of a metre thick, could be used to disrupt the membranes of cancer cells, causing them to self-destruct.

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