Reply #19: I've heard of that too

[Juche]

anti-angiogenesis drugs. What is cool is that I bet cures for obesity eventually comes out of all of this cancer research, since both diseases have a similiar MO. Certain cells in your body need to die, but you want to leave healthy cells intact. I have heard of people using the same techniques on fighting obesity on mice that are being used to fight cancer (attaching metal nanoparticles to fat cells then heating them until they die, drugs that kill the cells, anti-angiogenesis drugs, etc) but targeting adipose cells (fat cells) rather than cancer cells.

Either way, obesity and cancer are both major problems and I wouldn't be surprised if techniques to treat one end up working on the other since a true treatment for obesity will involve killing off adipose cells, rather than just emptying their fat content.