X-Message-Number: 24940
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
Subject: Tumbleweeds in the Bloodstream
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:56:57 +0100

Tiny sensors, shaped like tumbleweed and small enough to fit inside a
blood vessel, might one day ride to space inside astronauts' bodies,
warning the space travellers when radiation is damaging their cells.  This
new technology, being developed by NASA-supported researchers, would
improve health care on Earth, too.

FULL STORY at

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/28oct_nanosensors.htm?list687582


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more

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