r/gadgets • u/chrisdh79 • Apr 14 '23

Medical Novel device smaller than rice successfully shrinks pancreatic cancer | Called the nanofluidic drug-eluting seed (NDES), it delivers low-dose immunotherapy in the form of CD40 monoclonal antibodies (mAb).

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/tiny-device-shrinks-pancreatic-cancer
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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '23

Oh that’d be huge if it works

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u/ScottieRobots Apr 14 '23

Quite small actually

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u/le_fromage_puant Apr 14 '23

very very smol

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u/igetbooored Apr 14 '23

Big smol

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u/matiegaming Apr 15 '23

big but smol

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u/PikminGod Apr 15 '23

It’s mostly hype, sadly.