Cancer cells destroyed with metal from the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs

Cancer cells can be targeted and destroyed with the metal from the asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, according to new research by an international collaboration between the University of Warwick and Sun Yat-Sen University in China.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-11-cancer-cells-metal-asteroid-dinosaurs.html#jCp

That would be so easy if it was true. I’ve seen cancer cells in the middle of the brain targetted by antibodies attached to gold nanoparticles. The gold nanoparticles then showed up on brain scans. If the gold were replaced by iridium then that would make things quite simple.