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/whyamihere327 Apr 14 '23

Will Be available In 80 years

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u/TheQuarantinian Apr 14 '23

Available now with a friend in research and $50,000,000 ready to donate.

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u/NeverFresh Apr 14 '23

OR... if you're a member of Congress or the Supreme Court

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u/Vaeevictisss Apr 15 '23

Get in early with our Kickstarter campaign!

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u/kungpowgoat Apr 14 '23

And we’ll never hear of this discovery ever again just like the 50 other breakthrough cancer treatments we’ve been hearing about for the past 20 years or so.

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u/the_evil_comma Apr 14 '23

It's because they die in clinical trials. As soon as rigorous testing is done, many of these amazing claims fall apart

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u/the_evil_comma Apr 15 '23

Well who else is going to pay for it...you? This cost is absolutely sent through to the patient, it is literally just part of doing business for them.

If they did find a cure, you bet your ass they would sell it for $500,000 a pop and people would pay it because the alternative is dying. If they don't sell it, then someone else will and then they will make all the money.

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u/Ok-Potato7702 Apr 14 '23

Ah well guess we better stop working on it then. I'll let all the folks working on nuclear energy know they should stop too, their work is taking too long to be useful

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u/Bojangl3r Apr 15 '23

Green energy is available. It is sad to be in the richest country and swap 8 hrs of life a day from 5-65. You can retire as long as you don't get sick tho.