By Mark J. Donovan
Much
of the science around my latest book titled WATERKILL involves the use of
nanotechnology. In particular, it centers around the use of nanobots, if you
will, to deliver an engineered biological disease to infect people.
The
recent article in Phys.org titled “Meet the Nanomachines that could Drive a Medical Revolution” discuss in detail the use of nanomachines, or nano-vehicles, in the
carrying of drugs throughout the human body. It explains, for example, the injection
of drugs into nano-size magnetic shell structures that can then be inserted
into the human body, and via external magnets be guided through the body to
targeted areas. Once positioned into a particular area of the body, the
magnetic shell structures can be heated to expand and rupture, such that they
then release their drug contents into the targeted area of the body.
The
article also goes on to explain that the same nanotechnology technique is also
being evaluated for medical imaging. Again, by guiding the nanoparticles into
certain tissue areas of the body, and then scanning the body with an MRI
machine, the nanoparticles could help to better highlight medical problems such
as diabetes.
If interested in learning more about nanotechnology and want to enjoy an excellent thriller book, check out my new book WATERKILL.
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