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Posts tagged: health

Nanoparticles Help Treat Cancer

Posted on January 27, 2006 by Lynn Charles Rathbun

When someone has cancer, doctors often treat them with a number of different drugs that help to kill the cancer cells. The problem is, sometimes healthy cells get harmed by the very powerful drugs that doctors only want to work on the bad cells. ... Read More...

The Bugbot Can See Inside You

Posted on January 26, 2006 by Lynn Charles Rathbun

How would you feel about a robot bug crawling inside of you? At Carnegie Mellon Univeristy, scientists are making a medical robot that can do just that, but it's not just to gross you out! The Bugbot is a very tiny robot with six legs ... Read More...

Nanotechnology Can Light Up Your Brain

Posted on January 25, 2006 by Lynn Charles Rathbun

Our brain cells are changing all the time. They're full of chemicals that send messages from one cell to another, but they're much faster than the telephone! If scientists had a way of looking at those chemicals in our brains as they change, it would ... Read More...

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Bonds Hold Atoms Together

The bonds that hold atoms together to form molecules are called covalent bonds. They are pretty... read more

Nano Tattoos

If you have a certain kind of diabetes you already know this—getting a tiny bit of blood and then... read more

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