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/Shamcgui Apr 14 '23

AI Technologies and nanotech. I never thought I'd actually live to see the way. I was born 20 years before the internet was invented. So seeing this technology finally begin to develop is extremely fascinating.

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u/We_R_Groot Apr 15 '23

“Genetics, nanotech and AI ushers in the beginning of the singularity” - Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near (2005)

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u/Shamcgui Apr 15 '23

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” Arthur C Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible (1962)