Nano Blasters. Sounds like a video game, but researchers with the University of Missouri-Columbia have been working on some nanobots meant to seek and destroy cancer cells in the body. Injected into your system these bots can break holes into cancer cells, sending shockwave of drug delivery to tumors at a speed approaching Mach 3. Hat's off to the speed racer ambitions, but what's particularly significant about this is the success rate - 99% in animal tissue.

Should we be surprised that the US Army is funding the study? I guess not - it could prove useful for IED and landmine detection as well. Let's just hope that they don't let somebody like Lockheed Martin get proprietary with the technology.

Labels: convergence, technology