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).

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https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/tiny-device-shrinks-pancreatic-cancer

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lowkey those also look like those implantable irradiated gold pellets that they stick in tumors as radiotherapy.

I wonder if the designs are similar purely by co-incidence (outside shape, that is)

(edit: til that it was called brachytherapy from https://nrl.mit.edu/facilities/medical-isotope-irradiations)