Tiny sensor detects cancer-causing toxins

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:57 PM EST

Article Source: msnbc.com

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U.S. scientists have developed a tiny sensor that can detect small amounts of cancer-causing toxins or trace the effectiveness of cancer drugs inside living cells.

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Steven C.-383308

I think this is just another way for big brother to keep track of us. I wouldn't do it.

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#1 - Mon Dec 15, 2008 11:19 AM EST

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Exeder

Sadly nanomachines are not like they are portrayed in science fiction just yet. These nanomachines have no method for communcation or control as they are simply too small to build a CPU to control any sort of wireless network with. So no, the government could not track you with these. Remember not only does wireless networking require antenna and a power source, you also have to have operating systems to talk and decode, that means disk space. Even if we had the technology I'm afraid the government is far too incompetent to impliment any such monitoring system.

These nanites simply glow, and with the right imagining equipment doctors can see them.

I am more concenered about the cancerous properties of the nanotubes themself, as was my understanding of them.

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#2 - Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:20 PM EST

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