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Re:MIT Creates material that can remember its original shape by amelius on Sunday August 28, 2016 @05:43AM (#12375935)
> This could be hugely beneficial in applications like creating drugs that can lie dormant until it detects a change in body temperature indicative of a fever, for instance

Could this drug be activated by e.g. a hot laptop sitting on your lap?

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Re:MIT Creates material that can remember its original shape by pvaldes on Sunday August 28, 2016 @08:20AM (#12376216)
To mess with fever's system designed to protect the body looks like a very bad plan to me. A machine or a crocodile can afford to change its temperature by many degrees and go unscathed. We, humans, need to be able to finely termoregulate in a very narrow interval of temperature. Would make a 'cool' sci-fi crime if you go for a beach day and a hidden drug puts your body to 30ºC while you are tanning. Or like a chemical chastity belt.

Moreover, animals aren't machines, they have a complex metabolism that would inactivate, eliminate in the urine, modify, store, isolate or even create noxious substances whereas trying to get rid of those drugs.

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