"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
In the clearest signal yet of nanotechnology's ascendancy in the realm of medicine, the National Cancer Institute will announce a major nano-research program today.
The institute will spend $144 million over the next five years to fund cancer-related nanotechnology research.
The commitment represents the first major foray into nanotechnology by the National Institutes of Health, which funds the majority of biomedical research in the United States.
They will be funding research into things like nanoshells and quantum dots. A complete nanocancer tutorial is available here. Fascinating, and exciting, stuff.