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Post by skyship on Oct 17, 2009 16:51:30 GMT -5
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Post by skyship on Oct 17, 2009 16:56:45 GMT -5
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Post by skyship on Oct 17, 2009 19:53:54 GMT -5
The nano mother ship The nano mother ships look individually like a chocolate-covered nut cluster, in which a biocompatible lipid forms the chocolate shell and magnetic nanoparticles, quantum dots and the drug doxorubicin are the nuts. They sail through the bloodstream in groups that, under the electron microscope, look like small, broken strands of pearls. feedworld.net/singularity/The nanometer-sized cargo ships look individually like a chocolate-covered nut cluster, in which a biocompatible lipid forms the chocolate shell and magnetic nanoparticles, quantum dots and the drug doxorubicin are the nuts. Credit: Ji-Ho Park, UCSD Scientists at UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and MIT report that their nano-cargo-ship system integrates therapeutic and diagnostic functions into a single device that avoids rapid removal by the body’s natural immune system. It is 50 nanometers in size. So it has three times less volume than the typical virus. click on link to see nut cluster up close. nextbigfuture.com/2008/09/next-generation-hybrid-nano-capsules.htmlSo 50 nanometers. that puts it 3x less volume than typical virus, but bigger than a molecule. between DNA and a virus. so between double strand DNA, and a virus, about right? well, then the triple strand DNA or quad strand DNA could fit the bill? skyship
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Post by skyship on Oct 17, 2009 23:04:11 GMT -5
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