Nanoparticles Slog Through Mucus, Bring DNA to Lungs
Researchers designed teeny tiny DNA-loaded particles that, in small animals, were able to pass through the mucus layer covering the lung’s airways — proving the concept that therapeutic genes may one day be delivered directly to the lungs to treat cystic fibrosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma and other life-threatening lung diseases.
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http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/nanoparticles_used_to_breach_mucus_barrier_in_lungs
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Reinforces the dangers of smoking.
ReplyDeleteReinforces the likeliness of the dangers of smoking, but in a rather inferior manner, compared to evidence long collected. Which in turn tells of a relative ineffectiveness for the purpose of making people reform their habits, of bashing lacunae of their dangers-prevention policies. OTOH a flow of new reasons to expect danger from smoking could help immunity manifestation by newcomers to the proposition of cigarettes. Were it not for the famed rebelliousness of teenagers, this could help to overcome a quirk of the attention economy that's in turn possibly pathological: the latter being the necessity of wearing news status, for messages to be clamored...
ReplyDelete_(The latter observation in turn impressively relates to the narrative of passing black hole horizons: the actual singularity is not before you in space, it's in your future -- isn't the label of "news" meaning a claim to forerunning?... Behind it all, we see things are specialized for stupid herd behavior)._
really good
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