The Use of Nanotechnology in Medicine

Nanotechnology and Medicine

What is nanotechnology? Not very commonly discussed, but very commonly used.

We use nanotechnology on a day to day basis, smart phones, computers, pads, and now emerging very reputedly in medicine.

In the word “Nano” means a billionth (10-9). Nanotechnology is defined as the study of structures between 1 nanometer and 100 nanometers in size.

How small is a Nano…..really? A Nano concerns objects that are extremely small, bigger than atoms, but smaller than you can see than you can see with a light microscope. Nanotechnology uses the basic unit of measurement and it represents a billionth of meter or billionth of a part.

The Nano scale structures, devices and systems are now in sizes less than 100nm. They also contain:

• Hydrogen atom .04nm

• Proteins 1-20nm

• Feature size of computer chips 90nm

• Diameter of human hair 10nm

• Sugar molecule 1nm

Nanowires and nanotubes have physical and optical properties due to the dimensional quantum confinement, dimensionality and high surface volume ratio

Bio-nano material which is known for medical uses contain Protenis, enzymes, DNA, and RNA.

Today technology shifts are extraordinary we’ve gone to:

• Inches to Microns

• Microns to Nanometers

• Rods to Litho wires

• Litho wires to Nano wires

• Hammer to Light

• Light to Self-assembly

• Bad to Excellent

• Excellent to Unknown

This entire all had happened over the years in a substantial amount of time. We’ve already seen the rapid growth in today’s technology, small more efficient and powerful computer systems, cost effective technology for energy production- solar cells, fuel cells, batteries, and bio fuels.

Nano medicine is the newest and uprising of today’s technology involves monitoring, repairing, and c...

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...eries that are impossible, like rebuilding cells and or mimicking the healthy cells.

This would cause the ageing process to slow down and pro-long life. It is a very big revolutionary step and there’s been a lot debate about duplicating cells.

We are in the era of Radical Abundance which means, fast progression into today’s technology and a large mass of it all at once.

Nano technology has been around since 1900’s but was finally mastered in the late 1980’s by Mr. Eric Drexler.

Greatly influenced by Richard F. lectures “there’s plenty of room at the bottom”

Eric Drexler took the idea of manipulation of atoms to the next level by using machinery based on a nanoscale device and products built with atomic precision.

A Magical future where the sought out ideas of Drexler. He believes Past, present, and possible is how this all came aboutPattern of cause and effect