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Dates: during 1990-1999
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But that's just the beginning. Within a few decades, nanotechnologists predict, they will be creating machines that can do just about anything, as long as it's small. Germ-size robots will not just measure internal vital signs; they will also organize the data with molecular microcomputers and broadcast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Environment: ...And Will They Go Inside Us? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

The problem is, the "cure" for cancer is not going to show up anytime soon--almost certainly not in the next decade. In fact, there may never be a single cure, one drug that will bring every cancer patient back to glowing good health, in part because every type of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Will We Cure Cancer? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

That's because a tumor is made up of a hodgepodge of cells containing different genetic mutations, each of which allows it to wreak a different brand of havoc. Some mutations spur rapid growth; others prod nearby blood vessels into sprouting new capillaries; still others send cancer cells out into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Will We Cure Cancer? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

One day there will be drugs to trip up a cell at each of the steps it takes on the path to malignancy. A patient with lung cancer, say, might undergo gene therapy, breathing in genetically altered cold viruses that don't cause infection but instead act as miniature delivery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Will We Cure Cancer? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

We share this interest in infertile, social sex with a few other species: dolphins, bonobo apes and some birds. But even if sex is too good for human beings to give up, more and more people will abandon it as a means of reproduction. Many people born from in-vitro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Be Still Need To Have Sex? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

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