Eureka!

The Eureka prize was presented last night and included a nanotechnology "magic bullet" for heart disease (Levon Khachigian of UNSW, one of my almae matres). Nanotech might make some of us nervous (OK, it makes me nervous) but clinical trials are so rigorous these days, we can hope that it's in the arena of medicine that they'll be safest and least likely to take over the world.

In any case, Khachigian's "nanoassassins" are enzymes that can turn off bad genes, known as DNAzymes, and without the side effects that other drugs cause. Good one.

The full list of winners can be found in the link above (in the title of this post).