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Asked by potteri to Paige on 16 Mar 2012.
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Paige Brown answered on 16 Mar 2012:
Good question!!! Nano technology is used in many applications for medicine. Researchers like myself used nanoparticles as drug delivery agents. We can use nanoparticles like a little bullets to take drugs to the places in the body that we want them. This way we don’t have to use as much of the drug, so strong drugs like cancer medicines become safer with Nanotechnology.
Nanoparticles are also used to FIND cancer in the body. Nanotechnology is helping MRI, PET imaging and other imaging devices to be able to better find small tumors inside the body. Nanotechnology has revolutionized many different areas of medicine, and may continue to.
Some researchers are using gold nanoparticles to treat Alzheimers!
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Joanne commented on :
Hello potteri. 🙂
We are going to make nanorobots as well so that they can go inside your body to fix things and make you better. 🙂
This will take place of general and keyhole surgery where possible and reduce a patient’s downtime. This means we won’t have to endure so many cuts and scars and our bodies won’t have so much work to do, to get better.
potteri commented on :
Thank you so much
Joanne commented on :
You’re welcome. 🙂
Paige commented on :
You are welcome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!