'Missiles' to target cancer.Byline: By JAMES KELLY James Kelly or Jim Kelly is the name of:
TINY missiles containing the same kind of radiation used to kill a former spy are being developed to destroy cancer Scientists have found a way to package deadly alpha particles Alpha particles Helium nuclei, which are abundant throughout the universe both as radioactive-decay products and as key participants in stellar fusion reactions. inside DNA-sized tubes of carbon, it was revealed yesterday. Former spy Alexander Litvinenko Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko (Russian: Александр Вальтерович was poisoned last November with a tiny dose of polonium-210. Prof Lon Wilson, from Rice University in Texas, said: "It's something like the difference between a cannon shell and a ball bearing. "The extra mass increases the amount of damage alpha particles inflict on cancer cells." "It takes a direct hit from just one alpha particle alpha particle, one of the three types of radiation resulting from natural radioactivity. Alpha radiation (or alpha rays) was distinguished and named by E. R. to destroy a lone cancer cell." |
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