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Nuclear Nanocapsules for Cancer Weapon

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“There are no FDA-approved cancer therapies that employ alpha-particle radiation,”

said lead researcher Lon Wilson, professor of chemistry.

“Approved therapies that use beta particles are not well-suited for treating cancer at the single-cell level because it takes thousands of beta particles to kill a lone cell. By contrast, cancer cells can be destroyed with just one direct hit from an alpha particle on a cell nucleus.”

Nuclear Nanocapsules for Cancer Weapon

In the study, Wilson, Rice graduate student Keith Hartman, University of Washington (UW) radiation oncologist Scott Wilbur and UW research scientist Donald Hamlin, developed and tested a process to load astatine atoms inside short sections of carbon nanotubes. Because astatine is the rarest naturally occurring element on Earth — with less than a teaspoon estimated to exist in the Earth’s crust at any given time — the research was conducted using astatine created in a UW cyclotron.

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Therabath Professional Paraffin Bath

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Renuka Chowdhry talk about Condoms

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Renuka Chowdhry talk about CondomsAfter vociferously and unabashedly expressing her opinion on the matter of sex education in India, Union Women and Child Development Minister, Renuka Chowdhry is on the warpath again.

This time she has a note of caution for all women of the country. Speaking at a meeting of the National Women Forum of Indian Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS, she said women should not just trust the men to protect them against the disease.

“Women in India have to ensure their own protection and not depend on the men,” she said.

She added that women have to learn to get condoms so that they are safe against the disease and said that there was nothing embarrassing about going into a drugstore and buying a pack of condoms. Read more

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