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Letter: Wonder bug?

Published 11 April 2007

From Adrian McMillan

Ray Kurzweil says that “Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have designed a device the size of a blood cell that can find and destroy cancer cells in the bloodstream” (3 March, p 19).

Can we be told more about this? It sounds revolutionary.

Bristol, UK

Issue no. 2599 published 14 April 2007

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