New transmutation lead to treatment for cancer

[jos]

Scientists have witnessed atoms of one chemical element morph into another for the first time ever—a feat that produced an unexpected outcome that could lead to a new way to safely treat cancer with radiation.

Using a scanning tunneling microscope, which can produce images of each atom in a material's surface, they observed individual atoms of iodine-125 decay. As each atom decayed it lost a proton and became tellurium-125, a non-radioactive isotope of the element tellurium.

The transformation of one element to another occurred when the researchers infused a single droplet of water with iodine-125 and deposited it on a thin layer of gold. When the water evaporated, the iodine atoms bonded with the gold. 

THey calculated number of electrons emitted from gold-bonded iodine-125. This was six times as many low-energy electrons as plain iodine-125.

(The emission of low-energy electrons, which have been shown to be very effective in radiation oncology because they break cancer cells' DNA into pieces. Because these electrons can travel only 1 to 2 nanometers—a human hair is about 60,000 nanometers wide—they do not affect healthy tissue and organs nearby.)

So how to treat cancer? make nanoparticles of gold, bond iodine-125 to them, then affix the nanoparticles to antibodies targeting malignant tumors and put them in a liquid that cancer patients could take via a single injection. Theoretically, the nanoparticles would attach to the tumor and emit low-energy electrons, destroying the tumor's DNA. The gold-based nanoparticles would be flushed out of the body, unlike free iodine-125, which can accumulate in the thyroid gland and cause cancer.

Now the technique is patented and we can see a new millionare in the future

 

Source

http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmat4323.html

[SIGSEGV]

So what I'm hearing is...

Full Metal Alchemist?

[Misanthrope]

Now the technique is patented and we can see a new millionare in the future

Well thanks for fucking nothing

[Nineshadow]

So what I'm hearing is...

Full Metal Alchemist?

Yup.

[Jerakl]

Scientists have witnessed atoms of one chemical element morph into another for the first time ever

 

Wrong, they're something called radioactive decay, which is considered natural transmutation.

[mr moose]

Well thanks for fucking nothing

 

Well, to be quite realistic about, it if there was no money incentivizing the research then there would be no research lab to make the discovery in and thus no new cures for cancer on the horizon.  It's sort of like a nasty catch 22 where the only way of avoiding it is for all research to be government funded with increased taxes to cover the cost.  But then we'll have all the arguments that it's not the governments job to provide health care etc. 

[jos]

Wrong, they're something called radioactive decay, which is considered natural transmutation.

The thing is they sae the transmutation occuring through canning tunneling microscope. By patiently and continously observing it for 3 weeks. Yes people haveseen transmutation. but not a single atom doing it up close

[Ertman]

^ @Jeraki I guess what the OP is saying is that we have seen the decay for the first time, where as we have only seen the results previously. I actually do not know if this is the actual case though.

[Lethal Seraph]

inb4 we trade a left nut to cure the right one.

[casserly]

So what I'm hearing is...

Full Metal Alchemist?

Well I've been clapping my hands and then touching people for years...they don't seem to get better  :wacko: Haven't seen the truth yet, mind you...

[Syntaxvgm]

So what I'm hearing is...

Full Metal Alchemist?

you joke but I've been finding out first hand cancer treatment costs and arm and a leg.

Not so funny now is it?