Sunday, March 8, 2009
Cancer treatment yields futuristic weapon
The technology involves short, nanosecond-long pulses of extreme voltage.
For reasons as yet unknown, this can cause a cell to destroy itself in a process known as apoptosis, something being investigated as a cancer treatment. But the nanosecond pulses are also being researched as a way to temporarily disable human muscles.
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