Tiny bubbles hold giant potential for the fight against cancer. Nanotechnology product advancements
continue to appear in several research studies – with amazing possibilities. I recently read about some research taking place at the University of Utah’s Department of Bioengineering that focuses on the potential use of nanobubbles for targeted cancer treatment. As the researcher explained (and I thank them for making the analogy so easy to understand for the non-scientific community) – if you imagine soap bubbles…then imagine a drug in the soap bubbles…which eventually will pop for the therapeutic effect.
Ultra-highspeed photographs of microbubbles forming on a microheater show the effect of residual nanobubbles between heating pulses. The first pulse of a two-pulse sequence (a) produces nearly identical microbubbles time after time, but the second pulse (b) produces a random assortment of bubbles of varying sizes. Vertical bar shows a distance of 15 micrometers.
