Interesting link but please try and add some thought of your own when making a new thread. Don't just drop a link on us. The idea is to spark a discussion. This isn't your twitter feed.
"And so it begins" doesn't really count as valuable input unless you have a professional career in doing voice-overs for movie trailers.
It is about bloody time.
And by what he means is that what is beginning is fighting cancer on a different level, and perhaps different diseases too. The idea of removing and/or destroying cancerous cells on a cellular level is something I've heard of before, but I'm anxious to see how it will work in real life. I would like nothing better than for chemotherapy to be left the dark ages where it belongs.
On the downside, if the nanites aren't programmed properly, they could also end up attacking healthy cells as well. I think that there is also the issue of whether we should keep them inside the body (which I don't find a good idea: what if they get stuck, and cause an infection or other complications like other artificial objects in the bodies can cause), or if they should be programmed to exit our body when their job is done, get sanitized, and programmed for their next patient.
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