Check out this video from 60 Minutes last night! First of all, the concept of these nanoparticles doing such specific work on cancer cells is facinating. Secondly, this guy invented it in his garage! And finally, my favorite Dr. Steven Curley, aka Dr. Wizard, at MD Anderson is involved with it and he’s even in these videos!

So that first one is about 13 minutes long and it’s your typical 60 Minutes Feature story.

This second one is an almost 2 minute interview between Curley, Kanzius and Harry Smith, the CBS interviewer.

That’s awesome!

P.S. My mom and I used to think we were famous if someone we knew, no matter how obscurely, was on TV or in the paper or on the radio. We’d scream and should, “I’M TOTALLY FAMOUS!!!” and dance around excitedly. For example, after she legally changed her name to Windy (don’t ask me why she did it!), she’d always celebrate when the weatherman would talk about it being windy along the front range or whatnot. It was hilarious. Although the thrill of those windy weather reports wore out for me rather quickly, I do always think of her when I see it on the news!
Needless to say, now I am FAMOUS because Dr. Curley was on TV! For those of you just tuning into my blog lately, Curley is the uber-liver-cancer-specialist I got to see in Houston when we went down to MD Anderson in December. I still communicate with him via email and FedExing my CAT scans and such when Dr. Kane and I discuss new treatment options. While Kane is the captain of my treatment ship, Dr. Curley is like her First Mate and we get everything approved by him before we take a step because he is more familiar with cholangiocarcinoma than anyone else that we’ve found!