Femtosecond lasers are beginning to be used in medicine, although such applications are at an early stage of development.

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This is not a medicine that is likely to be used in patients with garden variety high cholesterol, or even those with less serious versions of the genetic disease FH.

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Of course, the technology could also be used for any bespoke item when travelling, not just one in medicine.

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Nanotech is still in its infancy, and scientists are just beginning to understand how it can be used to improve products and processes in fields ranging from semiconductors to medicine and energy.

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Our ability to reprogram DNA itself will undoubtedly lead to great advances in medicine, but the danger is that these same techniques can be used to modify viruses, like H5N1 influenza, to become more and more lethal, potentially affecting millions around the globe.

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And researchers agree that another giant study of the medicine, AGI-1067, is needed before the medicine, which is not approved anywhere in the world, can be used.

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In 2002, Dr. Colin Bouwer, the Head of Psychological Medicine at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, where I used to be on staff, was found guilty of murdering his wife by secretly and repeatedly injecting her with glucose-lowering drugs, sometimes in the university's own teaching hospital.

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