DNA-origami robots have the power to decimate cancer cells
A Harvard study originally published in Science says that tiny nanorobots carrying cancer-fighting cargo, designed using a process called \"DNA origami,\" have the potential to hunt down and destroy cancer cells. The disease-fighting devices impersonate a cell's receptor system, communicate with it and then deliver their \"payload\" (ahem).
Sounds promising, but the process hasn't yet been tried out in living organisms (researchers haven't yet figured out a way to stop ravenous enzymes from devouring these molecular messengers), and some folks are still weirded out by the whole thing. One Mashable reader says, \"On one hand, I think the technology is astonishingly neat; on the other, I don't want to tu into gray goo.\"
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