"Plenty of room
at the bottom."
— Richard Feynman
Medicine is getting very small and very clever, and most of the interesting parts aren't being talked about yet. If this interests you, you're in the right place.
Neuroblastoma accounts for around 15% of paediatric cancer deaths. A new approach uses mRNA and peptide vaccines to recruit the immune system directly.
Bladder cancer is survivable when caught early. The problem is what "early" looks like in practice — and whether a nanotube sensor can change that.
KJ Muldoon was born with a metabolic disorder that should have been fatal. What happened next is one of the most remarkable things personalised medicine has ever done.
A surgeon removes a small piece of brain tissue and needs to know immediately what it is. Nanopore sequencing is now fast enough to answer that question intraoperatively.