Shake cancer off

Normally I save all these science-related links for one post, but, you know, oh well. In this article, the interesting bit is not only buried in the story, it also somehow escaped the headline:

Nanomaterials may help fight cancer

So might regular-size materials. So what? The cool part is here:

A team of scientists... developed a technique that uses gold-plated iron-nickel microdiscs connected to brain-cancer-seeking antibodies to fight cancer.


The discs posses a spin-vortex ground state and sit dormant on the cancer cell until a small alternating magnetic field is applied and the vortices shift, creating an oscillation. The energy from the oscillation is transferred to the cell and triggers apoptosis, or "cell suicide."

 They want to shake cancer cells to death. I hope we get diseases cured before the world ends. Because I'll be all like "In your face, infirmity! Woo!"