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These Tiny Robots Swimming in Your Blood Are Going to Save Your Life

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Researchers have tricked cancer cells into eating balls full of poison, killing the cells and effectively treating breast cancer in a bunch of mice, says a new report in the journal Nature, published March 14. These miracle balls are called nanoparticles, and they could be the key to finding, diagnosing and treating a number of illnesses in the future — once we figure out how to make them do their jobs.

Think of nanoparticles as little delivery trucks. They can be loaded with almost anything from a medical lab — medicine, fluorescent agents or, in this case, poison. But these delivery trucks are tiny. 

Actually, tiny isn’t the right word. The screws on your glasses are tiny. The pebbles that get stuck in your shoes are tiny. A grain of sand (the poster child of tiny) is still 5,000 times bigger than the largest nanoparticle. 

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These Tiny Robots Swimming in Your Blood Are Going to Save Your Life

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The 6 Vegetables That Will Save Your Life

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If there’s one food that no one — not your doctor, your nutritionist, or even your mother — will tell you to eat less of, it’s leafy greens. Calorie for calorie, chard, collards, kale, and other leafy greens may just be the most nutritious food you can eat. They’re packed with vitamins — A, B, K, and others — but also rich in essential minerals like calcium, iron, potassium, and magnesium, as well as antioxidants, which protect cells against damage. Leafy greens contain phytochemicals, natural compounds that can help prevent hardening of the arteries and lower inflammation linked to heart disease. The greens’ synergistic combination of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and phytochemicals helps detox cells and expunge free radicals that damage DNA, both of which may inhibit cancer cells from forming and multiplying.

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Protecting the heart from cancer therapy

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Battling cancer can have long-term effects on the heart.

Treating cancer isn’t yet a precise science. Although doctors are getting better at targeting tumors, there’s still no magic bullet that homes in on cancer cells and destroys them without risking collateral damage to other parts of the body. The outward signs of off-target destruction include classic side effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy such as hair loss, nausea, and fatigue. But there can be silent inner damage, too, sometimes to the heart and arteries. These injuries can appear immediately during therapy; other times they don’t surface for years.

“Important advances in our ability to fight cancer over the last few decades have translated into improved survival,” says Dr. Erica L. Mayer, an oncologist at Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. “But we are also learning that many of these lifesaving therapies have the potential to affect the heart and other parts of the body.”

Once relegated to the back burner, the late effects of cancer care are gradually getting more attention. One turning point was the publication in 2005 of From Cancer Patient to Cancer Survivor: Lost in Transition. This influential report from the Institute of Medicine put a spotlight on the disjointed care often received by the 12 million-plus cancer survivors in the United States after their cancer treatment has ended.

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