"nanobubbles" single cell cancer targeting

The information in this article will be around for awhile.  Researchers at Rice University, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) have come across a new way to get caner fighting drugs just to the cell effected.  The research deals with targeting just cancer cells and treating them with drugs and treatments.  The use of the "nanobubbles" is effective yet expensive.  Nanobubbles are generated when a pulse of laser light strikes a plasmon and wave of electrons that sloshes back and forth across the surface of a metal nanoparticle.  Then by matching the wavelength of the laser to that of the plasmon, and dialing in just the right amount of laser energy the cancer cell is targeted and administered the drugs.  Researchers are able to separate the healthy cells form the cancer cells and place this nanobubble around it that basically explodes it and creates holes for the drugs to rush in and kill it.  This has not yet been tried in animals, so it does have a long way to go before it helps humans out, but it is a very big step forward to a new way of chemotherapy.