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This article covers the recent advance in using nanotechnology as a delivery vector for treatment of cancer pathologies. I have seen many of articles like this on promising ways being probed to use nanotechnology or nanomaterials in order to treat cancer but I see it as a research dead end. The reason has everything to do with where we are in the process of discovering precisely how tissues are expressed from the underlying genes in our DNA. As a therapy to kill tumors that have formed it apparently works (as shown in this article) but that doesn't fix the underlying pathology that led to the emergence of the cancer (which in many cases can be purely genetic with a low environmental component) To cure cancer one would need to effect repair to these genetic causation factors. It makes no sense at all given what is *rapidly* being discovered about the pathological details that cause cancer as well as other diseases to stop at *treating* cancer when we will very shortly be able to cu...

The last few years have been an astounding roller coaster ride of discoveries in the areas of genetics, molecular biology, oncology and in particular our understanding of how to analyze pathogens to find highly effective, targeted methods to destroy them without invasive or dangerous side effects to the living organism. The sequencing of the human genome has opened the flood gates on investigations into the genetic causes of diseases and to the quick isolation of proteins and enzymes that by over abundance , imbalance or lack of creation lead to various pathologies. In this post I am going to cover some of the recent discoveries and provide some analysis on how I think those discoveries will lead to accelerating benefits in the years to come. The story of stem cells An argument could be made that the ban of embryonic stem cell derived research in the United States by the Bush administration in 2001 forced researchers to seek other methods to investigate the power of these cells f...