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To: Kirk © who wrote (1587)	2/28/2007 1:43:13 PM
From: donpat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12873

--The nanotubes were targeted to cancer cells by attaching folic acid to the surface of the nanotubes. Folic acid binds to a folic acid receptor protein found in abundance on the surfaces of many types of cancer cells. "Folate is just an experimental model that we used," Dai says. "In reality, there are more interesting ways we can do this. For example, we can attach an antibody to a carbon nanotube to target a particular kind of cancer cell."-- nano.cancer.gov So...getting the nanotube to the cancer cell is feasible. Some use infra red rays, others lasers, this recent researcher uses radio waves. Cancer doesn't stand a chance!