http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100906160107.htm
summary-
Cancer is a hard to disease to treat because it's a personal disease.Many of the side effects experienced by chemotherapy patients are due to the fact that the drugs they are taking aren't selective.But, if we had cancer treatments that only killed cells that where genatically mutated then the chemotherapy patient would not get sick. Researchers at the California institute of technology have created conditional small molecules to perform this task. The molucules are able to detect which cells have cancer and which do not. Future experiments will tell if the expirements will work on a big scale.
Opinion-
I personally know somebody with cancer. It is a very hard thing for her to deal with. This article touches me personally because if we had the availibility to do this on a larger scale it would save many lives. I think that they need to continue research on this topic to go more in depth. I hope that they will find many more cool things to cure different diseases.
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