Scientist at Rice University where able to create Super antioxidant. A scientist Vicki Colvin lead a team that created small spheres of cerium oxide and then coated them with a fatty oleic acid. This discovery can potentially help cure Alzheimer's disease, brain trauma, cardiac arrest, and can also help cancer patients from the side affects of radiation. It could also protect astronauts from long term radiation in space. Cerium oxide contains nano crystals which can absorb and release oxygen ions, and the scientist made it small enough to be injected into the blood stream so if organs need protection from oxidation it could be used. Essentially the next step they need to do is attach antibodies to this so that it will be attracted to a certain cell in the body. Colvin is especially happy to help the cancer patients. Helping cancer patients in even a small way is good I think because even if we cannot cure cancer yet, the patients should still be helped in some way. Also if it protects astronauts from radiation maybe we could go farther into space. That would be cool.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131015123700.htm
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