Monday, May 19, 2008

Thing #12

This week I read an article in "Popular Science" about a new technology to destroy brain tumors. It was invented by John Kanzius, a man with no medical degree but with leukemia. Basically what he came up with was inserting metal into the tumor and then blasting it with radio waves. The radio waves heat up the metal, which kills the tumor. It's worked so far in studies on animals (poor little bunnies!). It's still a few years away for humans, but it's amazing how anyone can come up with an invention like that.

I've decided to choose the mp3 player as my incentive.

4 comments:

Sarah said...

That's incredible! I can't imagine thinking something like that up...then again, that's probably why I became a librarian.

Bee said...

Wow, that is awesome!

Shorty said...

Poor little bunnies -- check out my blog about the poor little monkeys. Maybe these people should get together.

tbryant said...

This article is very interesting. Thanks for the information!