Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Thar's Gold in Them Thar Pills

One of my favorite drug research blogs is Derek Lowe's "In the Pipeline" which yesterday commented on the use of gold nanoparticles attached to antibodies to permit direction of the gold to cancer cells, followed by selective laser irradation that can go through 4 inches of tissue and heat up the gold particles, killing the cells. Derek's post includes several links to literature references (with photos of cells).

Scott Adams is fending off criticism for a stereotype of hillbillies - a well written comment on his Feb. 18 cartoon, with artful response.

Beautiful pre-sunrise sky in the east. Great day to be on an Appalachian mountain, I'd bet.

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