The billion-dollar trick would be to persuade the body it is starving when it is not.

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"I wanted to see whether or not we can trick the cells into thinking they are in the body, " she says.

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Previous prevailing opinion held that the high frequencies needed for wireless power delivery couldn't penetrate the human body deep enough, and the lower frequencies that would do the trick require antennas too large to work as implants.

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So the trick is to find the slightest trait specific to cancer cells and to train the body to recognize it.

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The trick: folding in a small tsunami of beaten egg whites to give the batter foamy body.

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