It has jumped into the solar business, where it makes highefficiency photovoltaic cells targeted at commercial applications in areas with a high concentration of sunlight, like deserts.
Bacteria are distinct invader cells that are easily targeted by a drug.
But using infrared femtosecond lasers with carefully selected wavelengths, a US team targeted viruses and bacteria without harming other cells.
Targeted therapy: Targeted therapy looks at whether the cancer cells respond to a group of drugs that block the growth and spread of cancer by interfering with the biology of the cancer cells.
Even though the body's immune system cannot beat cancer, it still produces a response, creating antibodies targeted at proteins on the surface of cancer cells.
Given the billions of cancer cells in a patient, some cells will likely evolve that lack the targeted genetic alterations or that are resistant to the targeted therapy.
His team targeted the crucial class of proteins that are secreted from cells.
IMC-C225 is targeted at a protein found on the outside of cancer cells and should attack cancer cells while leaving healthy cells relatively unharmed.
And radiotherapy technology advances mean that far higher doses can be targeted more precisely on the prostate, killing more cancer cells with fewer treatments.
He said there was another group of drugs, led by Merck's Raltegravir which are also targeted at this group of patients, but which stop HIV integrating into cells.
The required cell population that must be targeted (killed or controlled) to cure or control cancer, is the set of all malignant cells that could evolve.
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