Shrapnel for cancer.
Researchers have developed nanoscopic iron-nickel disks designed to be carried into tumor cells by antibodies. Once in the tumors, the area would be subjected to a magnetic field and the disks would damage and kill the cancer cells.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091129/ts_afp/healthnanotechnologycancer
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091129/ts_afp/healthnanotechnologycancer