David Guerra
Mr. Porfido
WD
4/20/15
Period-6

In medicine, finding a substance that attacks cancerous tumors without destroying the healthy tissue around it has long been the Holy Grail.

From targeted remedies such as monoclonal antibodies to surgery, cancer has still managed to elude a treatment that discretely and separately attacks it alone.

Nanotechnologies, however the manipulation of matter at a molecular and even atomic scale to penetrate living cells are holding out the promise of opening a new front against deadly conditions from cancer to Ebola.