In business school, I did a summer project. Our task was to take a technology patent from the University and create a business plan around it.
Our plan was to take gold nanocubes and use them to treat cancer.
The nanocubes are small, like 40 nanometers per side. They are so small, they can easily float through the cell membranes of your body and go just about anywhere in you. Gold is inert, so it wont make you sick and your body will quickly flush them out naturally.
The most important thing is that gold is metal and metal resonates with radiation. Using a harmless UV light of the correct frequency, you can heat the gold cubes up. As in really, blistering hot.
To make the treatment work, you attach the gold nanocubes to a targeting agent like a protein which will attach itself to your target, a cancerous tumor. You inject the particles into a person, give them time to find the cancer, and then you apply the UV light to the area of treatment. The light is harmless to you but those nanocubes melt and in the process they burn tiny holes in the cell membranes of the tumor.
Chemotherapy injects a poison into your body that kills cells, healthy ones and cancerous ones, all over your body. It is incredibly destructive and painful.
Radiotherapy uses lethal radiation to kill cancerous cells and it too generates a lot of collateral damage to your body.
In comparison, nanocube therapy is like magic. It is lethal to the target and harmless to the rest of your body. It is painless with no side-effects.
Nanocube therapy is a miracle.
Al least that is what I wrote in our business plan for "Nano Therapeutics" and that is what I still believe. Unfortunately, we had no way to implement or benefit from the idea. We wrote our plan and all moved on to other jobs.
So imagine my surprise to see nanocube therapy on 60 Minutes last night.
Kanzius Machine
Sunday, Oct. 18, 7 p.m. ET/PT.
John Kanzius fought his leukemia by inventing a machine that may someday offer effective treatment for cancers without side effects.
The story itself is rather sad and they give less detail on the treatment than I just did but it is some measure of personal validation. I have no doubt these treatments will come to pass. It was my brush with fame to have learned about them so early.
