Comments on: 2 New Nanotech Super Powers: Desalinating Sea Water and Treating Cancer http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/03/22/2-new-nanotech-super-powers-desalinating-sea-water-and-treating-cancer/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: TheNanoAge.com http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/03/22/2-new-nanotech-super-powers-desalinating-sea-water-and-treating-cancer/#comment-17297 TheNanoAge.com Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:33:36 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=12131#comment-17297 Nanotech seems to have a new and/or improved answer to every problem we face. It's neat to see so many amazing near-term applications emerging. Nanotech seems to have a new and/or improved answer to every problem we face. It’s neat to see so many amazing near-term applications emerging.

]]> By: Andrew Moseman http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/03/22/2-new-nanotech-super-powers-desalinating-sea-water-and-treating-cancer/#comment-17296 Andrew Moseman Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:09:37 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=12131#comment-17296 @Art, It's always nice when you get to quote the Aussies. @Art, It’s always nice when you get to quote the Aussies.

]]> By: Gretchen http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/03/22/2-new-nanotech-super-powers-desalinating-sea-water-and-treating-cancer/#comment-17295 Gretchen Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:50:29 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=12131#comment-17295 I hope the nanobots know what they're doing with cancer treatment and targeting only the cancerous cells, including, hopefully, the cancer's stem cells. Great news, especially if they are able to locate more genes that cause incessant reproduction, that's not the only one, and I'm sure they're many other factors to cancer progression. I hope the nanobots know what they’re doing with cancer treatment and targeting only the cancerous cells, including, hopefully, the cancer’s stem cells. Great news, especially if they are able to locate more genes that cause incessant reproduction, that’s not the only one, and I’m sure they’re many other factors to cancer progression.

]]> By: Art http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/03/22/2-new-nanotech-super-powers-desalinating-sea-water-and-treating-cancer/#comment-17294 Art Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:02:55 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=12131#comment-17294 "But this process is an energy-gobbler and the membrane is prone to clogging, which means that de-sal plants are inevitably big, expensive, fixed pieces of kit"[Sydney Morning Herald] I lol'd at "fixed pieces of kit"! “But this process is an energy-gobbler and the membrane is prone to clogging, which means that de-sal plants are inevitably big, expensive, fixed pieces of kit”[Sydney Morning Herald]

I lol’d at “fixed pieces of kit”!

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