You won’t be able to catch your supper with this fishing rod—because at just 6 millimetres long, it’s designed to catch and kill cancers before they aggressively attack the brain.
Created from a length of polymer lined with 10 micrometer-thick film that mimics the shape of nerves and blood vessels, the rods trick glioblastoma cancer cells into hitching a ride aboard them. The cancer cells usually latch onto blood vessels and nerves to spread, but they’re equally attracted to these synthetic rods that can be (fairly) easily implanted in the brain.
via Gizmodo
February 18, 2014
