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International News Title: AC/DC Song Used To Improve Chemotherapy Delivery To Cancerous Tumors Researchers at the University of South Australia have found a new use for AC/DC music – to help create a coating around particles within chemotherapy treatment to better deliver the drug to a patient's tumor. According to a recent study by Prof. Nico Voelcker, using rock music, specifically "Thunderstruck" by AC/DC in this case, helps give the particles a better coating before they're delivered to a tumor. “The micro particles are porous, basically they are like a sponge. You fill them up with a drug, but of course you want to prevent the drug from escaping, and that is why we create the coating,” he said “Normally we would ignite a plasma onto the surface. The problem with doing that is you only form the coating on one side of the particle, the side that is exposed. But the side of the particle on the surface, the other side, is not going to get coated.” “That is where we came up with the idea of using a loud speaker that we would play into the system. We would turn that loudspeaker to a song that it would vibrate and the particles would bounce up and down. The chaotic frequencies worked well and gave you a more homogenous coating.” Voelcker says the use of rock music raised efficacy from anywhere between two-fold to 100-fold, and he hopes the strategy can be tested on other drugs… because hey, if you've got an excuse to blast good music while saving lives, why wouldn't you?
Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 7. AC/DC... Great band.
#5. To: GrandIsland (#3) AC/DC... Great band. Figures that you'd like this Satanic band. AC/DC's philosophy and music not only drove Bon Scott to a premature death, but the U.S. Army used AC/DC's music as “psychological torture” to drive Manuel Noriega out of the Vatican Embassy and into prison. During the American invasion of Panama in 1989, troops blasted AC/DC's “Highway to Hell” in order to drive Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega from the Vatican embassy where he had taken refuge (a tactic also used by the FBI at Waco).
#7. To: Deckard (#5) AC/DC's music didn't kill Bon Scott, you Black Lives Matter loving tool. His excessive drinking did. lol
Replies to Comment # 7. Did you hear about Brian Johnson's deafness? They told him to stop touring immediately or face permanent deafness. I had tickets for March 23. Rumor has it Axl Rose will be the Guest vocalist to finish the tour dates.
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